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Palestinian activists protest in front of the office of Assia architectural company in Ramallah, West Bank, September 21, 2014. Activists discovered major cooperation between Assia company and the Israeli Civil Administration in connection with the 'E1' project east of Jerusalem. Last week, Israel announced that government plans to forcibly relocate 12,500 Palestinian Bedouin east of Jerusalem to a new town in the Jordan Valley were drafted without consulting the tribes. According to activists, Assia has agreed to take on the project. The new town, to be named Ramat Nu’eimeh, will be built in Area C, near Jericho in the Jordan Valley, and is slated to house about 12,500 people from Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley and the Ma'ale Adumim area. (photo: Activestills)

PHOTOS: Palestinians protest Ramallah firm’s role in displacing Bedouin

Palestinians in Ramallah protest the Assia architectural firm’s collaboration with the Israeli Civil Administration in a project to forcibly relocate Bedouin in the West Bank. Israel’s Civil Administration, the military government that rules over Palestinians in the West Bank, is pushing forward with a plan to remove thousands of Palestinian Bedouin from lands in the occupied West Bank,…

By Activestills September 22, 2014

A bulldozer of the Israeli Land Administration tears down a house during the third demolition of Al-Araqib in August 2010. (Activestills.org)

When it comes to displacing Arabs, the Green Line does not exist

The Prawer-Begin Plan is not the first time the state has displaced Bedouins in the Naqab (Negev). But it is a sign of how, 65 years after the state’s establishment, Israel still treats thousands of its Palestinian citizens no differently than those in the territories. On April 25, a bus carrying Bedouin residents of Al-Araqib…

By Amjad Iraqi May 7, 2013