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Discriminatory Prawer Plan to evict tens of thousands of Bedouins from their communities in the Negev

Statement by the ECCP, Brussels, 12th July 2013: The Israeli government is expecting the Knesset to pass a law regulating the resettlement of Bedouins in the Negev, by which tens of thousands of Bedouins will be expelled from their homes, villages and lands, and concentrated in several more townships to be founded at sites of villages recognized for this purpose. Under the Prawer Plan it is estimated that some 30,000 to 40,000 people in at least 25 of the unrecognized Bedouin villages would be forcibly relocated. This is the largest attempted eviction of a native Palestinian population by Israel in … Continue reading

Palestinian civil society calls for freezing Israeli Knesset membership in Inter-Parliamentary Union in light of racist laws

Statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee,  Occupied Palestine, 9 July 2013: The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) condemns the racist and colonial “Prawer Plan” which was adopted by the Israeli government as official policy and recently passed by parliament (Knesset) in the first reading. This plan calls for ethnically cleansing tens of thousands of Bedouin Palestinian citizens of Israel by confiscating hundreds of thousands of dunams [1] of land that they have owned for generations in the Naqab and destroying their homes and communities to expand Jewish-only settlements in the Naqab. On today’s 8th anniversary of the Palestinian BDS … Continue reading

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