What is the Prawer Plan?
Arab
Bedouin citizens of Israel, inhabitants of the Naqab (Negev) desert
since the seventh century, are the most vulnerable community in Israel.
For over 60 years, the indigenous Arab Bedouin have faced a state policy
of displacement, home demolitions and dispossession of their ancestral
land. Today, 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens live in 35 villages that
either predate the establishment of the State in 1948, or were created
by Israeli military order in the early 1950s. The State of Israel
considers the villages “unrecognized” and the inhabitants “trespassers
on State land,” so it denies the citizens access to state infrastructure
like water, electricity, sewage, education, health care and roads. The
state deliberately withholds basic services from these villages to
“encourage” the Arab Bedouin citizens to give up their ancestral land.
If Israel applied the same criteria for planning and development that
exist in the Jewish rural sector, all 35 unrecognized villages would be
recognized where they are
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