'Israel' approves eviction of 500 Palestinian Bedouins in occupied Negev
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- 'Israel’s' Supreme Court approves forced eviction of Ras al-Jaraba Bedouins.
'Israel’s' Supreme Court on Wednesday finalized a ruling allowing the forced eviction of residents from the Bedouin village of Ras al-Jaraba, located in the occupied Palestinian territories of 1948.
The decision, reported by 'Israeli' public radio on Thursday, rejected the villagers’ final appeal against an earlier Beersheba District Court ruling. Authorities have been given three months to carry out the eviction, which will affect around 500 Palestinian Bedouins living east of Dimona.
Human rights groups and local residents condemned the ruling, calling it a move that “entrenches apartheid policies” in the Negev. Critics highlight that the eviction is being sanctioned without any approved or implemented urban plan, leaving residents, including women and children, without alternative housing.
Ras al-Jaraba has long-standing historical ties to the Hawashla tribe and is currently home to families from the Hawashla, Abu Salb, and Nasasra clans. The village lies under Dimona municipality, in an area locally known as Sha’iriya or Markabat al-Hawashla.
The eviction is part of an ongoing pattern of policies targeting Bedouin communities across the Negev.
