For the 217th time in a row since the year 2010, the Israeli authorities today demolished Araqeeb Bedouin village in the Naqab desert in the south of Israel, according to reports.

They said an Israeli force raided the village, which is rebuilt by its residents after each time it has been demolished, and removed all the tents and destroyed the tin shelters placed on the land by the residents to provide them with a roof over their heads, leaving them homeless.

The last time the demolition took place was on May 1. The village was demolished 15 times in 2022.

Every time the village is demolished under the pretext of illegal construction, its Palestinian residents return to the land and rebuild their homes in a clear rejection of the Israeli attempt to dislodge them from the land where they lived for decades.

There are dozens of unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel, which the government tries to displace and relocate in an attempt to take over their lands.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency