RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Jericho, 30 January 2022. Palestinians take part in a protest against Israel's land control in the Negev desert and to demand the legalisation of the unrecognised villages there in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar.


0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Wasel Abu Yousef, Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.


STORYLINE:

Israel does not recognize dozens of Bedouin communities in the south of the country, which until today lack basic services such as water and electric networks, and attempt to force them out of their lands and homes in order to take them over. It has employed the tree-planting scheme in order to justify pushing the residents out of the area.

Recently, locals of Negev have staged several protests against their land demolition by the "Jewish National Fund" ahead of their confiscation.

The Jewish National Fund was established as a non-profit Zionist organisation in the year 1901, with the purpose of collecting money from Jews in the world to purchase land in Palestine.

The area of the Negev desert is historically inhabited by Arab tribes, socially related to the tribes of Sinai, the Arabian Peninsula and Jordan.

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