Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned that the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders would “not end the conflict but shift it to inside Israel,” he...

The Israeli Internal Security Minister has expressed his concern about the possibility of an escalation of resentment among Israel’s Palestinian citizens that may erupt at any moment. Yitzhak Aharonovitch...

Israel’s interior Minister, Eli Yishai, has said that special detention centres to house African ‘infiltrators’ along the border with Egypt are primed to accommodate approximately 10,000 individuals by the...

A Palestinian official in the Negev region has accused Israel of using thirst as a weapon to displace them from their homes and land. The head of the regional...

Israeli police stormed the village of Wadi Al-Na’im in the Negev on Tuesday morning to destroy Arab rain-fed crops. Residents in other areas are expecting similar destruction of crops...

The remaining Palestinians in the Al-Naqab area, located in the southern area of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, are seeking to internationalise their case. They are also raising...

The Israeli central court in Beersheba has compelled two men from the Alsid village to demolish their own homes before they were demolished by bulldozers and fined them large...

The Palestinian Authority has rejected Israel’s plan to build a new village for the Bedouin population in the Jordan Valley region. The Minister of Housing and Public Works in...

The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, has approved a “racist” bill which will lead to the eviction of “illegal” Palestinian Bedouin communities from the Negev Desert occupied in 1948 by Israel,...

The Israeli cabinet has approved a plan by the Minister of Housing, Silvan Shalom, for the development of the Negev and Galilee to attract 300,000 Israeli Jews to the...

Arab student groups at the Hebrew University demonstrated on Wednesday evening against the Prawer Plan, which is aimed at Judaising the Negev and expelling Arabs from their own villages....

A full general strike paralysed the Negev’s towns and villages on Sunday, 24 November. The strike, which was staged by various institutions and commercial organisations, was held in protest...

Israeli occupation forces carried out detention campaigns on Monday morning in the villages of Al-Sayed and Hora in the Al-Naqab, or Negev, the 48 Arabs news website reported. The...

36 human rights organisations demanded on Wednesday for Israel to put an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes in the areas under its control in the West Bank....

Two of the most powerful right-wing parties in Israel, Yisrael Beytenu and Jewish Home, have agreed to “torpedo” the Prawer Plan, which aims to expel tens of thousands of...

Right wing members of the Israeli Knesset have confirmed their opposition to the Prawer bill, a plan to regulate Palestinian Bedouin settlement in the Naqab desert, also known as...

Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel, has called the Israeli government’s decision to withdraw the Prawer Plan bill a “major achievement in the history of...

The Safa Palestinian Press Agency reported on Tuesday that Israeli occupation forces have handed final eviction notices to members of the Bedouin community residing in Al-Jahalin, which is located...

The birth of a “Jewish state” in a country overwhelmingly not Jewish required a massive act of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias executed this...

In December 2000, the first Herzliya Conference took place, a now annual event and regular fixture in the diaries of politicians, military officials and defense industry figures from Israel...

On this year’s Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present...

By Abdul Bari UtwanThe Arab region is presently experiencing strange circumstances which bring to mind the situation which prevailed before the 1973 war. The peace process is basically stalled,...

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...

The Israeli Knesset recently passed the controversial Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement, also known as the Prawer Bill, which would force the relocation of over 30,000 Bedouin...

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...

On Saturday, protests were held worldwide in global defiance of a bill currently going through Israel’s Knesset. The bill, known as the Prawer Plan, aims to forcibly relocate up...