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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Israel demolishes Bedouin village

Maan News Agency - Israel demolished a Bedouin village on Wednesday, as protesters defied orders declaring it a closed zone.

Demonstrators and residents refused to leave a cemetery even as Israeli forces moved in to enforce the closed-zone order.

The village of Al-Arakib, in Israel's Negev desert, has been declared unrecognized and demolished repeatedly since 2010. Wednesday's demolition was the eighteenth since Israel first moved to enforce the order.

Taleb As-Sana, an Israeli lawmaker and head of the Arab Democratic Party, condemned the latest demolition.

As-Sana told Ma'an that the village would remain "a thorn in the throat of the Israeli government."

"The entire Arab world stands in solidarity with the residents of Al-Arakib," he added.
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