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Amnesty warns of enforced displacement in Negev

March 30, 2016 at 9:38 am

Amnesty International sent a petition signed by more than 1,500 people to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing their “deep concerns” regarding the future of Atir village resident in the Negev, QudsNet reported yesterday.

The indigenous Palestinian residents of Atir, who hold Israeli citizenship, are being enforced to leave the village after their homes were destroyed several times by Israeli occupation forces.

Marking 40 years of Palestine Land Day, Amnesty International said successive Israeli governments put restrictions on the residents of the village as they confiscated the land without proposing any alternative for them. This is in violation of its responsibility as an occupying power, the organisation said.

Copy of the petition was also sent to the Israeli president to express the “racial” crisis which Palestinians in Israel are forced to live under.

It is worth mentioning that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued deportation orders to replace the indigenous residents with Jewish migrants.

According to the latest eviction orders, the indigenous residents of Atir are to be removed to the Horah neighbourhood, also in the Negev, and the village will be turned in to a Jewish-only settlement. Other nearby settlements will also be expanded.