open menu
close menu
Deal of the Century
Palestinians in the crosshairs
Gaza violence
Israel's arms sales
wp qa
Newsletter
close menu
B696146A-7C75-40FC-8B38-383B61520B38
Created with sketchtool.
SUPPORT US
Topics
Rising authoritarianism
Settler violence
Ethiopian Israelis
Gender and feminism
+972 Resources
About
Our writers
The +972 Podcast
Contact us
Local Call
SUPPORT US
Follow us
twitter
facebook
instagram
Developed by
RGB Media
Powered by
Salamandra
Atir
facebook
email
twitter
link
Nearly 1,000 Bedouin structures demolished in past year
Over 1,700 structures were self-demolished by their owners over the past three years following pressure by police and state inspectors. Around half the demolitions were carried out in recognized Bedouin villages. Israel demolished 1,041 Bedouin structures in the Negev between 2013 and 2015, with a further 1,711 structures being destroyed by their owners after receiving…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
June 7, 2016
PHOTOS: Arabs and Jews protest planned expulsion of 1,200 Bedouin
Demonstrators march outside Be’er Sheva court, calling on the government not to evacuate two unrecognized Bedouin villages. Text by Yael Marom, photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Over 300 demonstrators marched outside the Be’er Sheva District Court Thursday against the planned demolition of two unrecognized Bedouin villages, Umm al-Hiran and Atir, in Israel’s Negev Desert. Two villages…
By
+972 Magazine
March 3, 2016
New Jewish settlements planned ‘on top of’ Bedouin villages
The Israeli government approves a plan for five new settlements in the Negev/Naqab. Rights group says the plan, like Israel’s overall policy regarding its Bedouin citizens, is discriminatory. The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan for five new Jewish settlements to be built in the Negev (Naqab) in the south of Israel. The plan,…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 23, 2015
Stay up-to-date on this pivotal moment in Israel-Palestine
Subscribe to The Landline
+972's weekly newsletter
Sign up
Error message after subscribing form
Latest
A living legacy of displacement
The impulses that drove the dispossession of the 1948 war are still acted on today, on both sides of the borders it forged. “Did you know I’m afraid of sleeping? … I’m scared of sleeping and waking to find myself in a strange land whose language I can’t speak. I’m scared I won’t wake up.” —Elias…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
June 19, 2015
It’s time to erase the Green Line
If the Israeli government makes no distinction between Palestinians on either side of the Green Line, there is no reason for human rights activists to do so. By Neve Gordon Around 50 students sat on the concrete floor of a makeshift shack, absorbing the desert heat as they listened to Salim talk about the imminent…
By
+972 Magazine
June 18, 2015
Bedouin village of Atir to be replaced with forest of ‘Yatir’
Atir is hardly the first case in which forestation has been used by the Israeli government and the JNF as a method of displacement and land grabbing against Palestinians — on both sides of the Green Line. “Apparently in Israeli democracy, the state is permitted to uproot Arabs from their homes and plant trees in…
By
Amjad Iraqi
June 16, 2015
Cabinet OK’s razing Bedouin towns to build Jewish settlement in their place
After being expelled and relocated in the 1950s, the residents of Umm al-Hiran are about to lose their homes once again – this time to make way for a Jewish national-religious settlement. (This post has been updated.) The Israeli government on Sunday made one of its most outrageous decisions in recent years (and there is…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 10, 2013
From a hole in the Wall to home demolitions in the Negev: A week in photos May 16-22
This week: A hole in the wall, protests against conscription, house demolitions in Jerusalem and the Negev, price tagging Women of the Wall, masked protesters in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, and demonstrations against occupation and settlements.
By
Activestills
May 23, 2013
Most Read
Day
Week
Month
israel-apartheid-jenin-gaza
jenin-camp-invasion-army
The myth of the Gaza 'border'
Before Zionism: The shared life of Jews and Palestinians
EdoKonrad
israel-apartheid-jenin-gaza
jenin-camp-invasion-army
Israel's most racist soccer club isn't shouting 'death to Arabs'
A one-state solution would bring economic disaster
The myth of the Gaza 'border'
israel-apartheid-jenin-gaza
jenin-camp-invasion-army
Israel's most racist soccer club isn't shouting 'death to Arabs'
'Nonexistent occupation' memes go viral in social media
Before Zionism: The shared life of Jews and Palestinians
Subscribe to The Landline
+972's weekly newsletter
Sign up