{"id":43425,"date":"2014-06-02T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=43425"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:48","slug":"israel-to-evict-the-dead-in-bedouin-village-demolished-over-60-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/06\/israel-to-evict-the-dead-in-bedouin-village-demolished-over-60-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to \u2018Evict the Dead\u2019 in Bedouin Village Demolished Over 60 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Al-Araqib<\/a>

Al-Araqib village, located between Beersheba and Rahat in the Israeli Negev desert (AFP Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Israel is trying out a new sort of \u201cflexible evictions\u201d in its quest to root out the \u201cillegal\u201d Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, demolished 63 times to date. Now even those buried in the village cemetery are reportedly receiving eviction orders.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> on +972 independent blog.<\/p>\n

According to Rotem, who is a member of the joint Arab-Jewish group Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF<\/a>), eight eviction orders were placed on structures in the cemetery at Al-Araqib last Wednesday [21 May 2014].<\/p>\n

While receiving eviction orders is nothing new for the Bedouins, who for years have been defiantly rebuilding<\/a> the unrecognized village, this time the recipients\u2019 names could have sent chills down some spines. The orders were partly issued against those no longer living in the village \u2013 and buried in the cemetery, where the Israelis placed eviction notes.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cflexible<\/em>\u201d evictions are to take place between June 12 and July 12, 2014. Hinting at what the author called \u201ca new and disturbing development, with far-reaching implications beyond the confines of Al-Araqib itself<\/em>\u201d is the fact that the authorities have for some reasons photographed the buildings at the cemetery \u201cfor the first time<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the latest eviction orders, Al-Araqib\u2019s Sheikh Sayah Al-Turi said in a statement, quoted by the NCF:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo 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<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state tells the Bedouin: you don\u2019t 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.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rud19ytcPS8<\/p>\n

The farcical situation is only the latest move of the Israeli government in what the rights activists have blasted as \u201cdiscrimination<\/em>\u201d and \u201cethnic cleansing<\/em>\u201d of the 40,000-strong Bedouin population in the occupied Palestinian lands. Israel has also been dumping city waste<\/a> right next to some of the Bedouin settlements in the desert, prompting health concerns from environmental experts.<\/p>\n

The villagers earlier addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register the ruinous \u201crecord\u201d of Israel when the demolition count reached<\/a> 38.<\/p>\n

Locals told Ma\u2019an news agency, that the recent developments were \u201cvery dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael has declared war against us from all directions,<\/em>\u201d a local council head Labbad Abu Affash told the agency. \u201cWhere do they plan to evacuate us? To the moon?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Israel is trying out a new sort of \u201cflexible evictions\u201d in its quest to root out the \u201cillegal\u201d Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, demolished 63 times to date. Now even those buried in the village cemetery are reportedly receiving eviction orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}