Negev Desert

The United Nations has asked the Israeli government to prepare and submit a detailed report on the status of Palestinian Bedouin citizens in the Negev Desert. This is in...

The Israeli Cabinet has approved a plan to relocate more than 30,000 of the Negev Desert's Palestinian Bedouin from their land. The move has been described by the Bedouin's...

This morning (27.07.2010), Israeli forces embarked on the total destruction of al-Araqeeb village in the Negev desert. The village was cordoned off and its inhabitants expelled before demolitions began....

The Israeli Air Force was on maximum alert on Wednesday due to the "infiltration of objects into Israeli airspace" which was closed as a result. All air traffic in...

Media sources have reported that although Israel's defence establishment has refrained from revealing details of the drone shot down in the north of the Negev Desert, it is believed...

The Fifth Conference on the Development of the Negev and Galilee has been told that there are plans for 10 new settlements in the Negev Desert. This comes at...

An Arab member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) has revealed that the government has approved the establishment of a special police unit of around 200 officers in the Negev...

Israeli bulldozers have destroyed the homes of Palestinian Bedouin living in Al-Araqeeb village in the Negev Desert for the 48th time. According to Israeli officials, the Bedouin live in...

The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation passed a draft law yesterday regulating Bedouin settlement in the Negev known as the "Prawer Plan", which will allow the seizure of approximately...

Israeli media sources reported on Monday May 13, that the Israeli government plans to construct a city in the West Bank's Jordan Valley for Palestinian Bedouins. Palestinians are of...

Jordan's House of Representatives has condemned the Israeli parliament's approval of the Prawer-Begin Plan which allows for the confiscation of land and displacement of the indigenous population in the...

As today marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords between the Israeli occupation and a group of Palestinians, pro-justice rights activists have assembled some...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) in the UK has accused the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a registered charity, of being involved in activities in Israel and the...

May 2012 sees Israel entering the sixty-fifth year since it was established on the ruins of historic Palestine. Those years have been a colonial journey unprecedented in history. Israel...

After a month and a half of anxiety, the expected has happened; Netanyahu's third government was formed with a fairly predictable coalition which excludes the religious parties Shas and...

The Naqab is located in southern Palestine and forms nearly two-thirds of its area, which amounts to 12 million dunams. It extends from the village of Al-Faluja, near Hebron...

This weekend saw protesters taking to the streets of Tel Aviv again to protest against the rising cost of living, austerity and what they call the "tycoon state". "We...