Israel Demolishes Over 2,000 Palestinian Bedouin Homes per Year
By Miko Peled, Aug. 10, 2020
A report published in June of 2020 states that in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the state of Israel demolished over two thousand homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel per year in the Naqab region alone.
The report was put together by an Israeli Non-Governmental agency called, “The Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality.”''
Today Israel only allows indigenous Palestinian Bedouins to live on 12% of their ancestral homeland in the Naqab''', transferring them to camps and crowded villages reminiscent of Native American reservations.
History
The Naqab, called the Negev in Hebrew, makes up the entire southern half of Palestine, and while it is a desert, it is considered to be a fertile desert. The indigenous people of the Naqab, the Palestinian Bedouin, are a semi-nomadic people and historically cultivated these lands.
Zionist mythology that claims the land was barren until the Zionist colonization “made the desert bloom,” is, in fact, a lie.The British government, which occupied Palestine from 1917-1948, and the Ottoman Empire before that, recognized the rights of the Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab to their lands.
However, from the very beginning of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, the Naqab was targeted and once the State of Israel was established, Bedouin lands were taken.Prior to the Zionist conquest of Palestine, close to one hundred thousand Palestinian Bedouin lived in the Naqab.
During 1948 all of Palestine was subjected to a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing and the Naqab was no exception.
Once the Naqab was overtaken by Zionist forces the region was subjected to a fierce campaign of ethnic cleansing allowing less than 10 percent of the native population to remain.
The ones who did remain were herded into the northern part of the Naqab called the “Siage” area or fenced area, and the state invested heavily in building modern Jewish-only colonies that provided an excellent lifestyle for the colonizers while depriving the Bedouin of their land and resources.
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