Summary
The razing of Al-Araqib on 27 July 2010, in The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People: at least 46 homes and other structures, including animal pens and water tanks, destroyed by officials of the Israel Lands Administration accompanied by over 1,000 police officers, the whole village bulldozed, thousands of olive and other trees uprooted and possessions confiscated, leaving 500 people, mainly women and children, with no shelter (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.20-21 / printed p.100-101).
Details
- The demolition came in July 2010 before the village’s long-standing land claims had, in the work’s other formulation, been finally adjudicated, and is described as the state deciding “to wipe the slate clean” and ‘cleansing’ a village that had existed since long before the state (PDF p.20).
- Since July 2010 the village has been rebuilt by its inhabitants and repeatedly demolished by the Israeli authorities; the villagers were allowed to stay only in the village cemetery (PDF p.21).
- The demolition is the abstract’s outstanding example of Judaising the Naqab and denying Bedouin land claims, and became the symbol that unified the Palestinian Arab minority and took the Naqab Bedouin case international for the first time since 1948 (PDF p.1-2, 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, Israel Lands Administration, Sumoud