SUMMARY
Two Palestinian villages – one in Israel, one in the West Bank – share a single story of a struggle against forced displacement. The parallels are striking.
Al-Araqib is a Palestinian Bedouin village in Israel whose residents are Israeli citizens. As of April 2013, Israel had destroyed the village 49 times to make way for two Jewish National Fund (JNF) forests. Susiya is a Palestinian village in Area ‘C’ of the West Bank whose residents live under Israeli Occupation. The majority of structures in Susiya are subject to demolition orders, and Israel intends to forcibly displace the community to make the land available for a Jewish settlement.
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