Off the Map

Israeli policies have put the Bedouin in a lose-lose situation. The state has forced them off the land they claimed as their own and into illegal shanty towns, cut off from basic necessities like water and electricity.

Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch

Stop Demolishing Homes, Remedy Discriminatory Land Allocation

Israel should declare an immediate moratorium on demolitions of Bedouin homes and create an independent commission to investigate pervasive land and housing discrimination against its Bedouin citizens in the Negev, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.