An Israeli court has ordered the evacuation of some 550 residents of an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, to build a new neighborhood for the city of Dimona. The Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court accepted the Israel Land Authority’s claims earlier this week, requiring the residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah to […]
Read MoreAttacks by Masked Cops and Fears of Reprisal: The Reality of Bedouins in Israel’s Negev Desert
Mousa Abu Merimi, a resident of the Bedouin village Bir Hadaj in the Negev, was driving home one Wednesday in mid-December with his 2-year-old daughter, who suffers from a muscular disease, after picking her up from a special-needs nursery school in Be’er Sheva. As they drove home via Route 222, between their village and the […]
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