“The Israeli authorities demolished the al-Araqib village for the 184th time,” Aziz al-Touri, a member of the Committee for the Defense of al-Araqib, told Anadolu Agency.
Al-Touri said the demolition was the ninth since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The village was demolished last on Feb. 17, 2021.
Homes in Al-Araqib, which are inhabited by 22 Palestinian families, are built of wood, plastic, and corrugated iron.
Al-Touri confirmed that the villagers intended to rebuild their destroyed dwellings and other structures.
The village was first destroyed in 2010 and every time after it was rebuilt since then. Israeli authorities claim that the site where it’s located falls under “state land.”
The Israeli Zochrot organization said in a recent report that al-Araqib village was first built during the Ottoman period and its lands purchased by residents.
Poster Comment:
Israelis can easily make Arabs leave a village by shooting at them in their fields, by poisoning their wells, by spraying the contents of septic tanks n their homes and fields, by destroying hundreds of thousands of their olive trees and by allowing armed, adult Israel settlers to assault young Palestinian children walking to school.