Israeli Rights Groups Ask Court to Stop Razing of Bedouin Villages
Several Israeli human rights organizations petitioned the High Court on Tuesday to prevent the demolition of five Bedouin villages. Five Bedouin villages housing 8,000 citizens will be destroyed to make way for seven new Jewish settlements whose need is not clear. Petitioners: “the plan is discriminatory, wasteful and unnecessary.” Residents of five unrecognized Bedouin villages,…