ISRAEL PLANS TO BUILD 20 SETTLEMENTS IN AL- NAQAB

        Negev, 24 Muharram 1435/28 November 2013 (MINA) – Israeli Occupation is working on applying  two colonizing schemes  in Negev south of occupied Palestine, Atiya Alaasm, the head of Regional Council of Arab villages and the Supreme Arabs committee, said.

        He explained that Israeli occupation undertook Prawer plan  which will result in the destruction of more than 35 unrecognized villages in Al-Naqab and the forced expulsion and confinement of more than 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins.

        Israeli Occupation Authority will replace Bedouin villages  with settlements units.

        He noted that Israeli Occupation Authority plans to build 20 settlement units  instead of Arab villages in Negev, ” these schemes epitomizes the nature of Israel’s policy; Israeli-Jewish demographic expansion and Palestinian-Arab demographic containment,”  he said.

        He went on saying that these plans go back to 1948, since when Israel applies several types of plans that all seeks to displace Palestinians from their homeland,  ALRAY News Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Thrusday (28/11)

        In 2012 Israel destroyed 1200 houses in Negev , and this number increased in 2013. Injustice, humiliation and forced displacement are a recurring theme in Palestine’s history.

“Palestinian people will oppose, resist and work against the continuous assault that our communities, across Palestine face,”  Alaasm said. (T/P012/E1)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)