Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Negev Bedouin to ask UN for help to quash Israeli transfer plan

Haaretz 5 Sept -- Cabinet delays vote on plan to move thousands to recognized Negev towns -- Representatives of Negev Bedouin will turn to the international community in an effort to keep the Israeli cabinet from approving a plan that would involve demolishing or moving some of their communities ...The plan calls for relocating between 20,000 and 30,000 Bedouin residents of unrecognized villages in the Negev to existing Bedouin communities such as Rahat, Kseifa and Hura. These communities would be expanded to accommodate the new inhabitants. At a press conference in Be'er Sheva Sunday, representatives of human rights organizations and Bedouin rights activists announced their opposition to the plan
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