This plan, devised by Ehud Prawer with addenda by Benny Begin, refers to the Bedouin-Arab Israeli citizens in the Negev / Naqab in the south of the country. The Bedouin population makes up about 30% of the total population in the region. About 70,000 of them reside in villages that pre-existed the state of Israel, or were created through military decree in the 1950s. These villages, through, remain “unrecognized” by the state, and their inhabitants are considered “squatters” on state lands.
The Plan, approved by the Israeli government in 2011, aims to forcibly remove inhabitants of those “unrecognized villages,” and resettle them in towns designated for the Bedouin population. The Prawer plan will thus deprive Palestinian citizens of Israel from their lands, home and livelihood, as well as their basic right to determine where to live.
In 2013, Palestinian Bedouins, together with activists from all over Palestine, launched a public campaign against the Prawer plan. This campaign also entailed a few “days of rage,” where thousands of protesters too to the streets in several location and demonstrated against the racist plan of uprooting. Israeli police responded with brute force, deploying riot police, special forces and horse-mounted police, violently arresting hundreds of activists, many of them remained in detention for months.
Local activists in Jaffa took to the street to protest the unprecedented police violence during the demonstrations against the Prawer plan on the third Day of Rage. As news about police brutality and multiple arrests in Hura and Haifa spread, activists began mobilizing for a spontaneous show of force in the city of Jaffa. The…
Over 1000 people, locals and activists from other parts of the country, gathered near the Bedouin town of Hura, in the Naqab / Negev to protest the Prawer plan. The demonstration in Hura, planned as the main event of the third “Day of Rage,” was spirited but peaceful, until, as many eye witnesses say, undercover…
Activists from Yafa, both Jews and Palestinians, took to the street Thursday evening to protest against the Prawer plan which will displace at least 30,000 Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev and mobilize for the upcoming third day of rage planned for 30.11. Protesters held banners against the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing and calling…
Over a hundred people, Palestinians and Israeli-Jews, gathered in Jaffa’s historic clock tower square in order to protest the Prawer plan, which is projected to displace some 40,000 Bedouins from ‘unrecognised villages’ in the country’s southern region of the Negev (Naqab in Arabic). Protesters held banners against this massive wave of ethnic cleansing, repeated demolitions…
In anticipation of the nationwide “day of rage” on 30.11.2013, Yaffa-based activists, both Palestinians and Jewish, protested at the historical clock tower square against the Prawer plan which threatens to displace at least 30,000 Bedouins from their home in “unrecognized villages” in the Naqab / Negev, in southern Palestine. Even before the plan has been…
Palestinian and Jewish activists took over Jaffa’s landmark clock tower square to protest the Prawer plan which would displace 30,000 Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev southern region of the country. Protesters chanted “Prawer will not pass” and blocked the road for about an hour and a half. If you like my work, please also…
