Israel to Force Bedouin Village to Pay for Its Own Demolition
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The Israeli state is claiming that the town, razed to the ground 83 times, should pay for the 1,000 police deployed to carry out the destruction.
Israel has taken the Bedouin village of al-Araqib to court to force the desert settlement to pay US$500,000 in demolition costs, despite having been razed to the ground 83 times since 2010.
The Israeli state is claiming that the southern town should fork out for the 1,000 police deployed to carry out the destruction.
Because it is “unrecognized” by the Israeli government, al-Araqib is automatically approved for demolition, due to the use of Ottoman code in the 1950s, allowing it to expropriate the territory.
Around half of Israel's 90,000 Arab-Palestinian herders live in such precarious localities.
Never before has a whole town been ordered to pay for its own demolition.
