Palestinian Village refuses to be wiped off the map

‘Sheikh Sayah al-Turi, head of the village, stands close to the ruins of his home in 2010. “We will not leave, we have documents proving this is our land and we will not leave,” he said.

“It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel will be tested,” goes the quotation attributed to the state’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

If anything, it is the creativity and resilience of the southern Naqab (Negev in Hebrew) desert region’s indigenous Bedouin population that’s been put to the test in the decades since Ben-Gurion’s rule.

One such village, al-Araqib, is not formally recognized by the state. It has been demolished 90 times and counting in the past five years.’

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