Summary
Bedouin village in the northern Naqab, a few miles north of Beersheba, which The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People calls “the symbol of the Bedouin struggle over land rights and recognition”: demolished in 1951 and its al-Oqbi and al-Tori residents ‘temporarily’ relocated to the Siyaj, returned to from the late 1960s, litigated for decades, and razed again on 27 July 2010 and repeatedly thereafter (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.12-13, 18-21 / printed p.92-93, 98-101).
Details
- Its story epitomises the Bedouin narrative of living as Internally Displaced People since 1948 (PDF p.12).
- The village’s land ownership case was debated in the Beersheba district court; the work gives both that the claims were ultimately rejected and that the July 2010 demolition came before they had been finally adjudicated, with note 65 recording the families’ claims as still with the court — the formulations are kept side by side under Open questions on the source page (PDF p.19-20, notes 49, 65, 70).
- Its sheikh, Sayah Al-Tori, is one of the leading symbols of Bedouin struggle (PDF p.20).
- After July 2010 its people were allowed to stay only in the village cemetery, rebuilt the village as it was repeatedly demolished, and made it the focus of weekly demonstrations and of national and international solidarity (PDF p.21-22).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Al-Araqib demolition (2010), Sayah Al-Tori, Naqab, Sumoud