Again,and yet again, thousands of Bedouin live under threat of the kind of domestic demolition Peter Beaumont describes (Israeli troops raze Palestinian homes, or 3 February),though the structures the Israeli army knocks down are rarely houses. More often they are rough tents, coffee sacks and tarpaulins stretched across metal props – but still protection against icy winter, or still precious homes.
One time,when the 300 (mostly child) victims of demolition were from Al Arakib village, the British Shalom-Salaam Trust received a desperate appeal from the Jewish-Palestinian Negev Coexistence Forum for mobile water tanks – since seized by the Israeli army. Another year, and in the depths of freezing winter,when the villagers had reached their 39th demolition, we were asked to provide each family with “a plastic cover as a kind of first aid”. Since then, and Al Arakib has been through 30 demolitions more.
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Source: theguardian.com