{"id":1962,"date":"2012-06-19T18:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jahalin.org\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2012-06-19T18:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:41:31","slug":"bedouin-are-squatters-on-their-own-land-the-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"Bedouin are \u2018squatters\u2019 on their own land- The National"},"content":{"rendered":"

One man\u2019s 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.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

June 2012<\/h4>\n

“HURA, ISRAEL \/\/ Nuri Al Okbi\u2019s home is an archive of his futile campaign to prove to Israel that he owns land he says has been in his family for centuries.<\/p>\n

Tucked away in boxes and stacked on bookshelves are maps and land deeds dating back to the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n

The collection, he says, is evidence of the Okbi clan\u2019s ownership of land in the Al Araqib area of Israel\u2019s Negev desert.<\/p>\n

Shortly after its founding in 1948, Israel seized huge swathes of Bedouin land in the Negev, including Al Araqib. Thousands of Bedouin, such as the Okbis, were expelled or confined to urban slums. They became squatters on their ancestral land.<\/p>\n

Mr Al Okbi, 69, says he has spent decades trying to convince Israeli courts that he owns a piece of the Al Araqib land.<\/p>\n

So when he heard last year of Israel\u2019s plan to uproot thousands of its Bedouin citizens from an area called Sigagh, Mr Al Okbi\u2019s suspicions were confirmed. Israel, he concluded, would never recognise his people\u2019s nomadic way of life and historic ties to the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have tried the law for so long to get our rights but there is no law in Israel \u2013 at least not for the Bedouin,\u201d he says. […]”<\/p>\n

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Full article here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/world\/middle-east\/bedouin-are-squatters-on-their-own-land?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Daily+Newsletter+11-06-2012#full<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One man\u2019s 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\u2019s home is an archive of his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}