Israeli authorities demolished several Palestinian homes in the Naqab(Negev) region on Wednesday.
During the early hours of the morning, Israeli bulldozers razed three buildings in Um Beten and additional structures on the outskirts of Hura, villages located in the northern part of the Naqab region, the Arabs48 website reported later that day.
The southern Naqab region is home to approximately 160,000 Palestinian Bedouins, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel’s estimates. As part of the estimated 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, they face more than fifty discriminatory laws that limit their access to state resources and stifle political expression, the Haifa-based Adalah Legal Center reports.
Demolitions continue
Yet in addition to these hardships, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel also notes that around 80,000 Palestinians in the Naqab live in communities that Israel refers to as “unrecognized villages" where they “are denied basic services and infrastructure, such as electricity and running water.” Many of these communities predate the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Israeli policy aims to push Bedouins off their land and into ghetto-like planned communities. The Prawer Plan , a program approved by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset , intended to displace tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Naqab, according to Adalah’sestimates.
After sparking outrage and widespread protests among Palestinians, Israel announced the cancellation of the Prawer Plan in December last year.
Arabs48 reports that “demolitions are still continuing” unabated in Hura and Um Beten, among other villages. Such demolitions have also continued without pause across the entire region and, to a lesser extent, have also occurred in Palestinian communities in the northern partof present-day Israel.
A video of Wednesday’s demolitions was published on YouTube:
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