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Israel to demolish a Bedouin village next month, build a Jewish town in its place
Israel is planning to demolish Umm al-Hiran and expel its 1,000 residents at the end of April. After that, it will build a Jewish town on its ruins. By +972 Magazine Staff Israeli authorities handed out demolition orders to the entire Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on Wednesday, as part of a plan to demolish and expel…
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+972 Magazine
March 22, 2018
Israel is razing a Bedouin village to build a Jewish-only town on its ruins
Israeli authorities have promised the courts that the displaced Bedouin residents would have an opportunity to live in the new community. New documents show that is far from the case. Despite assurances made to Israel’s High Court of Justice, a new town being built on the ruins of a Bedouin village in southern Israel is…
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Edo Konrad
August 10, 2017
Bedouin village braces for a new round of demolitions
It has been half a year since Israeli police killed Yacoub Abu al-Qi’an during the demolition of his home. Now the police are back to demolish structures donated to provide shelter to his children. It has been nearly a year and a half since a police raid on the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran ended in the…
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Yali (Yael) Marom
July 3, 2017
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Two killed in Bedouin village slated to be demolished, replaced with Jewish town
Police shoot MK Ayman Odeh in the head with sponge-tipped bullet. Conflicting versions emerge of ‘car ramming’ and shooting that left one officer and a village resident dead. By Yael Marom and Keren Manor Two people were killed and several others wounded when large numbers of police officers entered the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, in…
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Activestills
January 18, 2017
Authorities start process of replacing Bedouin town with a Jewish one
Israel moved the residents to the plot of land they lives on today. Decades later, the state wants to displace them again — to build a Jewish town on the ruins of their homes. Israeli police detained five people Sunday protesting the impending displacement of Umm el-Hiran, an “unrecognized” Bedouin village in southern Israel on top of which authorities…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 31, 2016
PHOTOS: Arabs and Jews protest planned expulsion of 1,200 Bedouin
Demonstrators march outside Be’er Sheva court, calling on the government not to evacuate two unrecognized Bedouin villages. Text by Yael Marom, photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Over 300 demonstrators marched outside the Be’er Sheva District Court Thursday against the planned demolition of two unrecognized Bedouin villages, Umm al-Hiran and Atir, in Israel’s Negev Desert. Two villages…
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+972 Magazine
March 3, 2016
PHOTOS: Construction for Jewish town to replace Bedouin village draws ire
Israel is moving forward with a controversial plan to outright replace a Bedouin village with a Jewish town in the Negev/Naqab. About 200 Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel took part in a demonstration on Thursday in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in southern Israel, where the state plans to destroy the village and…
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Amjad Iraqi
August 27, 2015
The ‘new Zionism’ is turning Negev Bedouin into a myth
As the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran prepares to be replaced by a Jewish town with a near-identical name, its residents are offering solutions based on real co-existence. By Ariel Dloomy In July 2007 I witnessed one of the saddest events of my life. Hundreds of security force personnel descended upon the Bedouin village of…
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Haokets
June 26, 2015
High Court okays plan to raze Arab village, build Jewish one in its place
By upholding the state’s explicitly racist plan for Umm el-Hiran, the court shows again that it cares more about Israel’s Jewish character than about democracy and justice. One year ago, the unrecognized Bedouin village of Alsira won a major victory when the Be’er Sheva District Court refused to reinstate demolition orders against the entire village. The…
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Amjad Iraqi
May 11, 2015
Israel’s newest Supreme Court justice and rule of law in Israel
Menachem ‘Meni’ Mazuz’s recent appointment to the Supreme Court reveals, yet again, that the borders of the rule of law lie only with those who are considered part of the ‘Jewish nation,’ not all of Israel’s citizens. By Salah Mohsen The appointment of Menachem “Meni” Mazuz to the Israeli Supreme Court did not raise any debate…
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+972 Magazine
September 29, 2014
WATCH: Jewish settlers await destruction of Bedouin village in Negev
Jewish settlers have been camped out in an illegal settlement in the Negev (Naqab) forest of Yatir for two and a half years, waiting for the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hieran to be razed so they can move in and build an exclusively-Jewish settlement on its ruins. By Nadia Ben-Youssef Deep within Yatir Forest in the…
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+972 Magazine
February 28, 2013
Bedouin village in Negev to be destroyed, Jewish settlement to be built on site
Despite being sent there by the state in the 50s, the residents of Umm al-Hiran face immediate evacuation and destruction of their homes, in order to make way for Hiran, a settlement for national-religious Jews. Last month, I visited along with a group of other +972 bloggers the village of Umm al-Hiran, in the northeastern part of the…
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Noam Sheizaf
October 2, 2012
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