HRW urges Israel to end discrimination against Bedouins
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“Israel should immediately declare a moratorium on the demolition of houses and the establishment of a Bedouin in the Independent Inquiry Committee ubiquitous ground and housing discrimination against Bedouin in the Negev-citizens,” said Human Rights Watch in a report published Monday. The Group of Human Rights declared that Israel’s policy “of forcing tens of thousands of Bedouins in southern Israel to live in a ‘unknown’ slums, where they are under a constant threat of having their demolished houses and their communities. The 95-page report is based on interviews, unknown in 13 Bedouin villages, and three cities in the state of Bedouin in the Negev. “The Israeli policy, the Bedouin to a situation without losing,” said Joe Stork, director for the Middle East at Human Rights Watch. “The state has forced the country to the way in which their own illegal and misery in neighbourhoods, truncated by Des daily needs such as water and electricity.” New housing - only for the Jews According to HRW, Israel has demolished thousands of houses Negev Bedouin since the 1970, 2007 and hundreds alone. Chen Israeli officials say they are simply the application of zoning and construction, but the group says he found that officials systematically demolish houses of Bedouin “, and mostly illegal for the construction or legalise Post-Jewish citizens. ” The report is then stated that while the Bedouin to undergo acute need of adequate housing and new communities, the state is the development of new housing for citizens and Jewish communities, although some of more than 100 existing Jewish communities in the Negev Assis half empty. “Israel is ready and able, new Negev towns for Jewish Israelis, a rural lifestyle, but not for the people who lived and worked for generations in this country,” said Stork. “This is grossly unfair. “Independent Investigation Agency ‘ Today, the Bedouin community comprises 25% of the population of northern Negev, but controls less than 2% of the country’s land. In his report, the organization has requested a specific ministry Housing Commission recently to review the issue of agriculture disputes “their recommendations on Israel’s international obligations in the field of human rights and the prohibition of discrimination in respect of the rights guaranteed to adequate and secure housing and protection ago forced evictions. A recommendation should be a specific role for conducting a thorough and impartial investigation on the problem of unknown villages, “said Stork.” Because the state itself is responsible for this systematic discrimination and denial of fundamental rights , a body independent inquiry is needed. “ |