Negev Bedouin are now demolishing their own homes out of despair | +972 Magazine
“Who wants to destroy their own home and leave their children
outside? This is not a democratic country. They see this as an act of
weakness, but it is not weakness. The state has already destroyed three
of my homes.”
After losing a lengthy legal battle against the
state, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village Sawa have come to
the conclusion that watching the authorities destroy their homes is far
more traumatizing for their children.
Now they have resigned themselves to demolishing their own homes.
Pictured: A Bedouin woman is seen near the ruins of her house in the
unrecognized Bedouin village of Sawa, after her family demolished the
house to prevent Israeli authorities from doing it themselves, Negev
Desert, December 23, 2014. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org
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Bedouin woman is seen near the ruins of her house in the unrecognized
Bedouin village of Sawa, after her family demolished the house to
prevent Israeli authorities from doing it themselves, Negev Desert,
December 23, 2014. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
