[Peace-discuss] Israel To 'Evict The Dead’ In Bedouin Village Demolished Over 60 Times

Fri May 30 08:26:08 EDT 2014

  Israel To 'Evict The Dead’ In Bedouin Village Demolished Over 60 Times

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/Al-Araqib village, located between Beersheba and Rahat in the Israeli 
Negev desert (AFP Photo)/

Israel is trying out a new sort of “flexible evictions” in its quest to 
root out the “illegal” Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, demolished 63 times 
to date. Now even those buried in the village cemetery are reportedly 
receiving eviction orders.

The Arab Bedouin village, located in the arid Negev desert but still 
troubling the Israeli authorities ever since the first full-scale 
demolition in 2010, is dealing with its latest challenge: eviction 
orders for the deceased, rights activist Michal Rotem writes 
<http://972mag.com/in-al-arakib-even-the-dead-face-eviction/91388/> on 
+972 independent blog.

According to Rotem, who is a member of the joint Arab-Jewish group Negev 
Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF <http://www.dukium.org/eng/>), 
eight eviction orders were placed on structures in the cemetery at 
Al-Araqib last Wednesday.

While receiving eviction orders is nothing new for the Bedouins, who for 
years have been defiantly rebuilding 
<http://rt.com/news/bedouin-village-demolition-israel-591/> the 
unrecognized village, this time the recipients’ names could have sent 
chills down some spines. The orders were partly issued against those no 
longer living in the village – and buried in the cemetery, where the 
Israelis placed eviction notes.

According to the NCF, the cemetery, along with several homes and a small 
improvised mosque, has so far been left untouched by the Israeli 
authorities. However, it soon might change as “/flexible/” evictions are 
to take place between June 12 and July 12, 2014. Hinting at what the 
author called “/a new and disturbing development, with far-reaching 
implications beyond the confines of Al-Araqib itself/” is the fact that 
the authorities have for some reasons photographed the buildings at the 
cemetery “/for the first time/.”

In response to the latest eviction orders, Al-Araqib’s Sheikh Sayah 
Al-Turi said in a statement, quoted by the NCF:

“/To all the Jews who believe in equality and that it is possible for 
Arabs and Jews to live together, mobilize in support of truth and 
justice and stand up for every Bedouin home/.”

“/The state tells the Bedouin: you don’t have a place in the Negev or in 
Israel. This is a great loss for the Bedouin and a great loss for the 
Jews. As long as there is no recognition of Bedouin rights to their 
lands, there will be no peace in the region, no equality and no justice./”

The farcical situation is only the latest move of the Israeli government 
in what the rights activists have blasted as “/discrimination/” and 
“/ethnic cleansing/” of the 40,000-strong Bedouin population in the 
occupied Palestinian lands. Israel has also been dumping city waste 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni3osAEakAE> right next to some of the 
Bedouin settlements in the desert, prompting health concerns from 
environmental experts.

The villagers earlier addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to 
register the ruinous “record” of Israel when the demolition count 
reached <http://rt.com/news/bedouin-village-destroyed-israel-898/> 38.

Locals told Ma’an news agency, that the recent developments were “very 
dangerous.”

“/Israel has declared war against us from all directions,/” a local 
council head Labbad Abu Affash told the agency. “/Where do they plan to 
evacuate us? To the moon?/”

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