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A sign at the entrance of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Alsira warns of home demolitions. Villagers had the sign made. June 19, 2014. (Photo by Michael Omer-Man)
WATCH: Living in the shadow of the Prawer Plan
Following a series of high-profile protests that seemingly ended one iteration of the Prawer Plan, nobody — especially those who would be most affected — knows where the plan to displace tens of thousands of Bedouin Israelis stands today. Social TV visits two unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, Al-Araqib and Alsira, to see how…
By Social TV June 26, 2014
A Bedouin man surveys the demolition of his village, Al Araqib, July 27, 2010 (Photo: Activestills.org)
Bedouin village wins major ruling as court blocks state’s demolition plans
The court’s ruling that the rights of Alsira’s villagers’ take precedence over the state’s agenda for their land, inadvertently implies what should have already been an established fact: the deliberate hostility toward the unrecognized village is simply wrong. May 1 was a good day for the families of the Arab Bedouin village of Alsira. After…
By Amjad Iraqi May 6, 2014
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