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Israeli forces demolish a Bedouin village for over 200 times

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Ramallah, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) Israeli security forces on Tuesday demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, in the southern Negev desert, for 202nd time since 2000 and sixth time this year.

Each time the village is demolished, its residents return and raise it in clear defiance of the attempt to evict them from the land on which they have long lived, Wafa news agency noted.

The source stressed that the village is home to 22 families, totaling some 800 people, who are engaged in livestock and agriculture.

Some 240,000 Bedouins live in Negev, most of them in communities not recognized by the Israeli authorities, who systematically demolish those villages. Earlier this year, violent clashes broke out between the police and the inhabitants of the region following the crisis generated by the planting of trees by the Israeli National Fund (JNF) on Bedouin land.

In April, the Government approved the construction of a new Israeli settlement in the desert and considered the possibility of founding six more near Bedouin villages, which rejected the plan.

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