Ramallah and Al-Bireh
A good eight months have passed since the Naqab uprising against the
Israeli afforestation policy that aims to seize the land in the Naqa’
area east of Bir al-Sabe’. And a year and a half have passed since the
Dignity Uprising took place in 1948-occupied Palestine, during which
Israel arrested thousands of Palestinian Bedouin youth in the Naqab and
flooded the streets with police officers and their vehicles. It also
doubled house demolitions and court cases to gratify the extremist
Israeli groups, among them the Sayeret Barel militia, which roam the
streets of Bir al-Sabe’ and call for the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from
Israel. In the meantime, these groups have chased Palestinian Bedouin
youths simply for being in the city, and the Israeli municipality has
increased its public activities in the courtyard of Al-Masjid al-Kabeer
(Great Mosque)in Bir al-Sabe’, aiming to show great disrespect to the
Palestinian Bedouins, who are passionate about their mosque.
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