Bir al-Saba

Israel will soon put a plan to forcibly displace up to 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins on its statute books.

The constant sound of bombs is taking its toll on Palestinian children in Gaza.

Tear gas fired at school in Naqab village of Bir Hadaj as JNF threatens to demolish Palestinian homes

Traveling back to Gaza, Fidaa Elaydi finally meets her uncle, who was released from Israeli jail as part of the prisoner swap in October. With his release, and the ability to spend time together, she says it changed the dynamic of her family.

While attention is focused on the Palestinian Authority’s UN recognition initiative, Israel is quietly taking hugely significant steps to transfer 30,000 Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab (Negev) desert from their ancestral lands.

A shack made of aluminum sheets and wood, and a few cows and chickens are all that Suleiman al-Urjani, 45, owns in this world. It is the kind of dwelling that al-Urjani, his father Auda and their families have lived in since 1948 when the family was first displaced by Zionist forces from their original home in what is now Israel.