Bedouin

Residents salvage furniture before demolishing their homes, A-Sir, Israel, June 16, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Hundreds of Bedouin left homeless as Israel ramps up Naqab expulsions

Residents of two unrecognized Palestinian villages were forced to dismantle their own homes — the latest chapter in a decades-long cycle of displacement.

By Oren Ziv June 24, 2026

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen with security forces during a tour of the Bedouin village of Tarabin Al-Sana, southern Israel, December 31, 2025. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Israel is ‘restoring governance’ to the Negev — by terrorizing Palestinians

With the pretext of a stolen horse, police have turned the Bedouin village of Tarabin Al-Sana into a war zone. A fatal shooting was only a matter of time.

By Oren Ziv January 9, 2026

Naftali Bennett poses for pictures with supporters while awaiting the arrival of Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage freed from Hamas captivity, outside David’s home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Naftali Bennett wants to be Israel’s next PM. First stop: incite against Bedouins

By taking aim at Palestinian communities in Israel's south, Bennett proves he offers little change from the most racist figures in the current government.

By Samah Salaime November 13, 2025

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Israeli forces raze the entire unrecognized village of Wadi al-Khalil in the Naqab, May 8, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Israel razes entire Bedouin village to expand a highway

The demolition of Wadi al-Khalil, an unrecognized village in the Naqab, left over 300 citizens homeless despite their attempts to reach a compromise.

By Oren Ziv May 10, 2024

Ibrahim al-Quran, an educator from the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Bat in the Naqab. Two of his children were killed on October 7. (Photo: Oren Ziv)

Reeling from October 7, Bedouin citizens struggle to make their losses known

Despite the toll of Hamas' attack, many in the Naqab feel they can only rely on community support in a context where Bedouin life is not valued.

By Kaid Abu Latif December 6, 2023

Israeli police officers guard during a protest against tree planting by the Jewish National Fund, outside the Bedouin village of Sa'wa al-Atrash in the Naqab/Negev desert, southern Israel, January 12, 2022. (Flash90)

Gov’t contract shows how Israel enlists forests to grab land from Bedouin citizens

An agreement between the Israel Land Authority and Jewish National Fund uses militaristic language justifying tree-planting as weapon against 'invaders.'

By Meron Rapoport September 22, 2022

Mo'min Swaitat in London, August 10, 2022. (Alice Austin)

The Palestinian artist reviving the forgotten sounds of the intifada

After discovering a treasure trove of Bedouin music in a shuttered Jenin cassette store, Mo’min Swaitat is re-releasing the lost songs of his youth.

By Alice Austin September 21, 2022

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas and party members at the party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Disillusioned with Ra’am, a new party wants Bedouins to have their own voice

The Islamist Ra'am has long had strong support in the Naqab. But after the party's failures in government, Bedouin citizens are demanding a change.

By Baker Zoubi August 17, 2022

A JNF forest built on the remains of the depopulated Palestinian village of Lubya (Courtesy of Umayma Diab)

WATCH: The dark past and present of the Jewish National Fund

A new video challenges the myths of the JNF, an organization that has played a central role in dispossessing Palestinians from its inception until today.

By Po Medaykim February 16, 2022

Bedouin women and girls protest Israel's afforestation and expropriation of their land, Sa’wa al-Atrash, Naqab, January 12, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

As Naqab protests intensify, Bedouin women are taking the helm

Women and girls are increasingly on the front lines of Bedouin resistance to Israel’s expropriation of their land — and they’re just getting started.

By Samah Salaime January 19, 2022

Israeli settlers hold the Israeli flag and signs reading "Preserving and saving the Israeli land" in Bat Ayin and the Gush Etzion junction, June 21, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flas90)

West Bank settlements are annexing land in Israel, too

Israel has been giving vast swaths of agricultural land inside the Green Line for small West Bank settlements to profit from for years, documents show.

By Meron Rapoport January 6, 2022

The funeral of Yacoub Abu Al-Qi'an in Umm al-Hiran, January 24, 2017. (Activesitlls.org)

The killing of a Bedouin man is a weapon in Netanyahu’s war for survival

Netanyahu is using the wrongful police shooting of Yacoub Abu al-Qi'an as a cudgel to attack the authorities charging him with corruption.

By Edo Konrad September 9, 2020

Bedouin families outside their homes in the village of Umm al Hiran, in the Negev desert, southern Israel, August 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Total poverty’: Bedouins in Israel struggle to get by under pandemic

The coronavirus crisis has worsened years of government neglect of Bedouins in the Naqab, forcing a once self-sufficient society into deeper destitution.

By Suha Arraf July 21, 2020