Negev - Saba:
Today, Tuesday, the machinery and bulldozers of the Zionist enemy authorities demolished the tents of the residents of the unrecognized village of "Al-Araqib", which is threatened with uprooting and displacement in the Negev region, for the 235th time in a row since it was first demolished on July 27, 2010, under the protection of police forces and their affiliated units.
This is the second time that the Zionist authorities have demolished the tents and modest homes that house the residents of Al-Araqib since the beginning of this year until today, after demolishing them 13 times in 2024, 11 times in 2023, 15 times in 2022, and 14 times in 2021, in their repeated attempts to push the residents of the village to frustration and despair and displace them from their lands.
The first time the Zionist authorities demolished Al-Araqib was on July 27, 2010, while the previous demolition was carried out on January 7.
The residents of the village of "Al-Araqib" insist on staying and clinging to their land. They re-erect their tents each time from wood and nylon coverings to protect them from the intense heat in the summer and the bitter cold in the winter and to confront the plans to uproot and displace them from their land.
The Zionist enemy authorities are pursuing all the residents of Al-Araqib with their arms in several ways and methods, including arrests on several charges under the pretext of building without a license and claiming to seize state lands.
The Zionist authorities imposed heavy fines on the residents of Al-Araqib and continued the policies and practices of harassment, prosecutions, and arrests.
There are 22 families in the village of Al-Araqib, which has a population of about 86 people, who make a living from raising livestock and desert agriculture. In the 1970s, according to the laws and conditions of the Zionist authorities, the residents could prove their right to ownership of 1,250 dunams out of thousands of dunams of land.
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