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A culinary Birthright trip to Israel features a stop at Chan Hashayarot, a Bedouin camp where the food, stories and activities offer a glimpse of another world. July 2012 “Negev Desert, Israel — It was night in the Negev Desert, and our bus driver Mich’ael had just turned onto a narrow dirt …

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Bedouin tents and wandering goats dot the barren hills on the drive from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea, giving residents and visitors a glimpse of how the Holy Land must have looked in ancient times. June 2012 With their corrals, water cisterns and tractors the camps look more like …

One man’s futile quest to prove ownership of land in the Al Araqib area of the Negev desert shows how Israeli law is weighted against the Bedouin as the cabinet approves a plan to move 30,000 clan members into urban townships. June 2012 “HURA, ISRAEL // Nuri Al Okbi’s home …

Dispossessing the Bedouin Go to page 381 for a chapter on the Jahalin entitled “The Greater Jerusalem plan threatens Bedouin communities” “The planned population transfer is the continuation of a pattern of dispossession spurred on by the fast growing but, according to international humanitarian laws, illegal Israeli implantation in Area …

Residents of Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem say their water supply sabotaged five times during May. June 2012 “The police announced on Thursday it had arrested four Israelis on suspicion they had sabotaged the water supply to a cluster of Bedouin settlement in Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem. The four …

Israel plans to move West Bank Bedouin June 2012 Khan Al Ahmar, West Bank // Until last October, the Bedouin of the West Bank seldom drew any notice. Travellers on the busy four-lane highway that tumbles from the heights of Jerusalem, east to the Dead Sea, might have noticed through …

Report: Polish water tanks in the West Bank may be destroyed 14.05. Jerozolima (PAP) – Organizacje pozarządowe działające na palestyńskich terytoriach opublikowały raport o niszczeniu przez Izrael obiektów powstałych na Zachodnim Brzegu za pieniądze krajów UE. Na liście obiektów zagrożonych są cysterny na wodę wyremontowane z polskich funduszy. Zdaniem władz Izraela wyburzane …

Bedouin Cultural Centre – Jebeliya the mountain people of South Sinai April 2011 Click here to watch the video! The Jebeliya community has unique traditions related to each stage of their life cycle. Traditions related to the life cycle vary: there might be specific clothes to be worn by at …

Letter to Secretary of UN Committee against Torture, Mr Joao Nataf 2012 “Mr Joao Nataf Secretary UN Committee against Torture Treaty Bodies Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland 7 March 2012 Dear Mr Nataf RE: ISRAEL – ADOPTION OF LIST OF ISSUES BY THE COMMITTEE …