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Israel: Bedouin Palestinians expelled from the village of Wadi Al-Khalil
Already weakened by the Israeli regime which has reduced their access to water resources, Palestinian Bedouins are now threatened with expulsion by Israel in the West Bank and in the Negev desert, located in southern Israel.
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Already weakened by the Israeli regime which has reduced their access to water resources, Palestinian Bedouins are now threatened with expulsion by Israel in the West Bank and in the Negev desert, located in southern Israel.
“We go from destruction to destruction. The police respected neither the children nor the elderly. Nothing at all”, deplores Jaber Ali Salem Salama, resident of Wadi Al-Khalil, located in the Negev, desert in the south of Israel. The Bedouins of the Negev have long thought they could find a compromise with the state: they have Israeli nationality and believed they were protected by the Supreme Court. However, the Court ruled that their expropriation is legitimate so that the Israeli state can carry out highway expansion work.
“All the plans of successive Israeli governments were clear: it is a question of concentrating the Arab populations of the Negev in a very restricted area”deciphers Youssef Al-Atawi, Israeli opposition MP from the “Arab Movement for Renewal”. “All these strategies, these policies of suffocation go against the Arabs of the Negev and their lands. And their objective is to recover these lands”. For the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, the expulsion of Wadi Al-Khalil is an important step for the strengthening of Israeli authority in the Negev.
