Bedouin
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VTJP News & Articles 19 October 2012: Protests and strikes as Israel raids Bedouin villages, threatens to destroy homes
19 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center As Ship Approaches Gaza Shore, Israel To Attack Estelle ShipIMEMC – The Canadian Boat To Gaza reported that they received a message from the Finnish Foreign Department informing that Israel informed them that its soldiers will board Estelle solidarity ship currently around 120 Nautical Miles away Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 10 September 2012: Among the ruins of Bedouin al-Araqib
10 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 80 Injured In Clashes Between Residents, Security Forces In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported Monday that eighty residents and members of the Palestinian security forces were reported when a number of residents attacked the City Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 June 2012: Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 39th time
25 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Sheds, Confiscates Water Tanks, In Wadi Al-MalehIMEMC – Israeli soldiers demolished, on Monday afternoon, several sheds used by Bedouins in Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the West Bank, and confiscated several water tanks used by the residents, in an attempt Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 May 2012: Israeli government announces plan to forcibly remove 2300 Bedouins
10 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Injunction Delays Demolitions of Jerusalem Area Bedouin HomesIMEMC – The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center obtained on Wednesday an injunction order for Khan al-Ahmar Kurshan community. This temporary injunction prevents the demolition of homes of the eight families that received 24-hour eviction notices Continue reading
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Occupied Palestine: The Freedom Bus – Ride for Justice!
From Sept 23rd – Oct 1st 2012, people from around the world will take part in a solidarity ride through the West Bank. Interactive performances will give voice to personal stories about popular struggle, political imprisonment, home demolitions, the Separation Wall and daily life under Israeli occupation. Continue reading
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Video: Israel’s “New West Bank”
In recent years, the government has adopted the so-called Prawer Plan, reversing several earlier decisions to recognize unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert. The new plan, explained by Association for Civil Rights in Israel lawyer Rawia Abu Rabia, will relocate 40,000 Bedouins in southern Israel for the establishment of 10 Jewish villages in their… Continue reading
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Video: Israel's "New West Bank"
In recent years, the government has adopted the so-called Prawer Plan, reversing several earlier decisions to recognize unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert. The new plan, explained by Association for Civil Rights in Israel lawyer Rawia Abu Rabia, will relocate 40,000 Bedouins in southern Israel for the establishment of 10 Jewish villages in their… Continue reading
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YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE: THE NEED FOR “COLLAPSE WITH AGENCY” IN PALESTINE By Jeff Halper
Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank,… Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: European Union Protests Israeli Policies in the Occupied West Bank
European Union Ambassador to Israel, Andrew Standley, submitted a formal protest to the Israeli Foreign Ministry over plans to displace Bedouin, and demolition of Palestinian homes in the E1 area near the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, reported Haaretz on Friday. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 December 2011: Thousands protest Israel Bedouin relocation plan
11 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Egypt Denies Claims Of Hamas Training Centers In Sinai IMEMC – Egyptian security officials denied claimed reported by the Israeli “Jerusalem Post” in which it said that the Hamas movement established basis and missile manufacturing facilities in the Sinai Peninsula as Israel bombards such Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 December 2011: Israeli government to relocate 2300 Bedouin in order to expand settlement
6 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settler Sentenced 3 Months Public Service For Repeatedly Ramming Palestinian IMEMC – The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem sentenced a settler who rammed a wounded Palestinian with his vehicle, and drove his car over him back and forth, to three months “Public Service”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 November 2011: Israeli desert plan would uproot 30,000 Bedouin
23 November 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center P.A. Ready To Submit The Detainees’ File To The Hague IMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that all preparations to present the file of the Palestinian detainees, held by Israel, to the International Court at The Hague, were concluded and the Continue reading
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Israel finds new “home” for Bedouins: a garbage dump By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
Quietly unveiled to local aid organizations in early October, Israel’s Civil Administration, the body that governs Area C of the occupied West Bank which is under full Israeli military and administrative control, plans to expel approximately 27,000 Bedouins from their communities in Area C within three to six years. Continue reading
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The Negev’s Hot Wind Blowing By Jonathan Cook
The al-Turis are determined to stay on their ancestral lands to maintain their traditional pastoral way of life; Israel wants the land for a forestation program, to beautify the Negev and attract more Jews to settle there. Continue reading
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UK tour ‘Bedouin of the Negev’ / London, Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights
Dr Awad Abu Freih heads the Chemistry Department of Sapir College in the Negev. He is also a Bedouin from Al Araqib, a village demolished twenty eight times since July 2010. He will speak about Israel’s little-reported ‘war’ against the Negev Bedouin who have been hounded from land they bought and inherited, and lived there… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 September, 2011: Israeli cabinet announces plan to forcibly displace tens of thousands of indigenous Bedouins
12 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center B’tselem: Israel Army Denies Palestinians Right To Protest In Wb IMEMC – Monday September 12, 2011 – 17:48, the Israeli Human Rights’ organization B’Tselem said the Israeli military denies Palestinians the right to protest in the West Bank. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 June, 2011: Israel’s plan to forcibly remove 30,000 Bedouin slammed as cruel
6 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Prepares To Approve 4100 New Units For Israeli Settlers In East Jerusalem IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 03:03, The Israeli Interior Ministry, and the so-called Construction and Planning Committee, are preparing to officially approve 4100 units for Jewish settlers in occupied Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 March, 2011: Israel To Sue Bedouin Villagers For Cost Of Demolition
4 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Non-violent anti-Wall protests held in four West Bank villages on Friday IMEMC – Saturday March 05, 2011 – 04:22, On Friday afternoon, anti-Wall protests were organized in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and an-Nabi Saleh, in the central West Bank, as well as al-Ma’sara Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 August, 2010: Israel Plans Mass Forced Removals of Bedouin
7 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protest in Artas against the Israel wall IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 20:27, The people of the village of Artas west of Bethlehem organized on Friday their weekly march against the construction of the wall on their land. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 August, 2010: Israeli group spotlights sham of Israeli construction freeze
4 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Customs Department Officers Close Nablus TV Channel and Attack Staff Members IMEMC – 4 Aug 2010 – Wednesday August 04, 2010 – 22:44, The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the recent raid on a Nablus TV channel, which included the beating of Continue reading
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