In the Negev, Israel disguises land theft as a legal dispute

The Naqab (Negev) is once again the scene of clashes between the Palestinian Bedouin community and the Israeli state. It began as a strike by the community to protest potential Israeli ‘forestation projects’ on their land and subsequent evictions of their population. But the situation soon escalated to a physical confrontation when the Jewish National Fund (JNF) sent earth-moving machinery into the villages of Naqa Ber Al-Saba and Al-Atrash to carry out the project. Most Israeli media, especially on the right, framed the protests as riots, legal disputes with the state, or focused on the polic…

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