Rights Groups Vow to Fight Israel's 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Bedouin Village of Ras Jrabah

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'The forced displacement of Ras Jrabah's residents to expand the Jewish city of Dimona... serves as clear evidence that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against its Palestinian citizens,' says AdalahEnglish.

"The forced displacement of Ras Jrabah's residents to expand the Jewish city of Dimona... serves as clear evidence that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against its Palestinian citizens," said one legal advocacy group.

"This judgment shows how Israel's deeply discriminatory laws around land and property ownership are used to enforce apartheid against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are systematically denied the same rights as Jewish Israelis," Heba Morayef, Amnesty International's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a"The clock is ticking for Ras Jrabah's residents, who have just months to pack up their lives and leave the only homes they have ever...

Ras Jrabah covers 84 acres in what Arabs call the Naqab Desert belonging to the Al-Hawashleh tribe, who have been living there for generations. The Israeli city of Dimona—which was built on Al-Hawashleh tribal land beginning in the 1950s and is infamous for being the birthplace of Israel's nuclear weapons program—is seeking to expand as its population of more than 35,000 grows.

 

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