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TODAY: Palestinian Bedouins try to stop Israeli bulldozers being used in a tree-planting program carried out by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on the land of the #Naqab desert, also known as #Negev. 
Since its creation in 1901, the JNF has been acquiring lands serving the settler-colonial project in the region of Palestine. Photos by Activestills.
To this day, Israel bans Palestinian refugees of the Naqab, most of whom are currently in Gaza's refugee camps, from returning to their ethnically cleansed towns in favor of Israeli settlers. Photos by @OrenZiv_ / Activestills
Examples of appropriation of #Arabic toponyms
List will name #Palestinian villages, place names depopulated before or in 1948, followed by #Israeli settlements with toponyms derived from names of destroyed #Palestinian villages:
■ #Lubya
Depopulated July 1948 (Bean in #Arabic)
List will name #Palestinian villages, place names depopulated before or in 1948, followed by #Israeli settlements with toponyms derived from names of destroyed #Palestinian villages:
■ #Lubya
Depopulated July 1948 (Bean in #Arabic)
"Even with #COVID19 hitting poor communities hard, the #Israeli authorities have not let up on harassment of the #Bedouin #Palestinians."
by @mikopeled
mintpressnews.com/report-israel-… #Naqab #Israel #FreePalestine #annexation #apartheid
by @mikopeled
mintpressnews.com/report-israel-… #Naqab #Israel #FreePalestine #annexation #apartheid
"For the last 7 decades its #indigenous people, the #Palestinian #Bedouin who have historically lived here for thousands of years, have been living without #rights and subjected to a vicious campaign of dispossession and racial #segregation."
by @mikopeled
mintpressnews.com/in-bir-as-saba…
by @mikopeled
mintpressnews.com/in-bir-as-saba…
#Palestinian #Bedouin children stand on the rubble of two classrooms destroyed by the Israeli army in the village of Abu Nuwar, #WestBank. Israel demolished the school saying the #EU-funded structure was built without proper permits.
Photo by Mahmoud Illean | AP
#FreePalestine
Photo by Mahmoud Illean | AP
#FreePalestine
