Israel sues Bedouin villagers for cost of repeated evictions

29 July 2011 Israel has repeatedly razed a Bedouin village over the past year and is now suing the villagers to pay for the cost of the demolitions. Residents of a Bedouin village in Israel’s Negev desert are facing a lawsuit for the cost of Israeli government agencies repeatedly destroying their homes and other structures. Israeli authorities filed a claim for 1.8 million NIS (more than US$500,000) with a court on 26 July for the expense of destroying the structures and evicting the residents of al-‘Araqib village as many as 28 times over the past year. The most recent eviction took…

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