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While the government claims that the nature of these future communities, whether agricultural, rural, suburban or urban will be decided in full cooperation with the local Bedouin and that relocated people will receive new residences, many Bedouin people have found new homes unsustainable, destructive of their communities—and have been forced ...
Umm al-Hiran (Arabic: أم الحيران; Hebrew: אום אל-חיראן) was a Bedouin village settled by Arab-Israeli citizens of the Abu Alkian tribe located in the Wadi Atir area of the Negev desert in southern Israel. Located near Hura, the village was established in 1956 and is one of 46 unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel. In ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. General view of one of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert of Israel, January 2008 Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel are rural Bedouin communities in the Negev and the Galilee which the Israeli government does not recognize as legal. They are often referred to as ...
Israel has begun demolishing a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank for the second time in three months, in what a rights group called an attempt to displace an entire Palestinian community ...
The demolition of the village in the occupied West Bank displaced 73 people, including 41 children, a United Nations official said. Israel razes most of Palestinian Bedouin village in West Bank on ...
A United Nations committee has called for the withdrawal of the draft law that would move 30,000 Bedouin living in the Negev to permanent, existing Bedouin communities. Furthermore, the United Nations human rights chief urged Israel to reconsider a proposed law that would result in the demolition of up to 35 Bedouin villages, displacing as many ...
The village lies on the 200mm RPA (rainfall per annum) line drawn by Israeli meteorologists on the basis of a schema developed by Wladimir Köppen to define cultivable land in the desert. Two archives were established to document the local Bedouin's rights to their land, one by Nūri al-‘Uqbi and another by Israeli geographer Oren Yiftachel .
THE NEGEV DESERT, Israel — As the sun set Sunday, a handful of people filed into a dining hall in a quiet village in the Negev desert for a shared iftar, the sunset meal that breaks the Ramadan ...