The occupying zionists on Thursday demolished all the crude homes and tents in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Araqib in the Negev desert for the 162nd consecutive time, displacing its residents.

According to local sources, occupying zionist gangs and employees from the Bedouin development authority, which is responsible for such demolitions, stormed the village and forcibly removed the residents from their homes before wreaking havoc on everything.

In early September, occupying zionist gangs stormed the village, removed homes and detained women and children in an attempt to intimidate the local residents and force them to leave the area.

Araqib residents live in a constant state of fear because they expect the demolition of their village at any moment after they manage to rebuild their homes again.

However, such zionist arbitrary, criminal and inhumane policy of demolition, uprooting and displacement will only increase the residents’ resolve and adherence to their land and village even if occupying zionist gangs demolishes it thousands of times.

Al-Araqib is one of several Bedouin villages in the Negev desert, which are "unrecognized" by occupying zionist gangs.

The demolition of al-Araqib and other villages in the Negev is a systematic zionist policy aimed at expelling the native population from the Negev and transferring them to government-zoned areas to pave the way to expand and build settlements for jewish communities.

ILKHA