NEGEV, MAY 9, 2007 (WAFA) - Once more so-called "Green Patrol" officers, joined by Israeli police, came to destroy houses of villagers in Taweel Abu-Jerla (in the Negev), the Israeli Bedouin Rights Defence Association said Wednesday.

The Association said in a press release, furthermore, they uprooted and seized the tent of Nori el-Okbi in which he demonstrates for more than a year on his lands in al-Arakib and also took his car which serves him as a home. The car was taken with all his belongings: a bed, food and water.

The treatment of the Bedouin citizens by the Israeli authorities has passed all limits, it adds.

He of the Association, Nori el-Okbi, said "we know that consecutive governments have prepared and implemented a policy of harshness and discrimination based on unscrupled racism with the intention of completing the dispossession of the Bedouins, and silencing those who protest the taking away of their lands."

He added that the Israeli government policy is not to allow Bedouins a life of dignity. "We call upon the enlightened world and its representatives in Israel, as well as international bodies, to get involved and bring to an end the dire violation of human rights and property, which is for us like genocide," he said.

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