Summary
Sheikh Sayah Al-Tori of Al-Araqib, described by The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People as “one of the leading symbols of Bedouin struggle and the head of the village of al-‘Araqib”, whose tribe returned to its land in the 1980s-1990s after more than forty years of waiting on Israeli promises of return (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.19-20 / printed p.99-100).
Details
- Quoted from interviews in June and July 2009: “In 1951, the army came to al-‘Araqib and asked us to leave temporarily to the enclosed zone. We were promised by the army and some officials that we could return to our land soon after.” (PDF p.19, note 67).
- Quoted: “I have been waiting for more than forty years to be allowed to return to my land, but this dream has never come true.” His tribe decided to return and build shacks and houses without Israeli permission: “This is our land, and I will live here for ever, and I will not wait for the Israeli authorities to defraud us any longer.” (PDF p.20, note 69).
- The al-Tori tribe, with the al-Oqbi, was forced from al-Araqib into the Siyaj in 1951 (PDF p.13 / printed p.93).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Al-Araqib, Siyaj, Sumoud