Prawer plan

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The Prawer Plan ( Hebrew תוכנית פראוור Tochnit Prawer ) is a plan of the Israeli government which provides, among other things  , to expel 40,000 to 70,000 Palestinians -  Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev - from their villages that are not recognized by the government and into villages that are established by the government to settle. It was passed by the Israeli Knesset on September 11, 2011 .

Emergence

The Prawer Plan was drawn up in September 2011 when the Israeli government adopted a controversial "Five-Year Plan for Economic Development". Among other things, it provides for the resettlement of 40,000 to 70,000 Bedouins from the Naqab / Negev.

The bill is based on the proposal of a commission chaired by Ehud Prawer , chairman of the policy planning department in the prime minister's office. The Commission's proposal is based on the recommendations of a committee chaired by former Supreme Court judge Elieser Goldberg . The chairman of the committee for the implementation of the plan is the former military commander for southern Israel, Doron Almog . Minister Benny Begin was instructed by the cabinet to coordinate feedback from the population on the issue.

Due to the lack of a parliamentary majority and resistance of those affected who protested against the resettlement, as well as the right and left political spectrum, the vote in the Knesset on the implementation of the plan was suspended in December 2013 until further notice.

Content and objectives of the plan

According to the Prime Minister's press communication, the plan regulates the following:

  1. Status of the Bedouins in the Negev
  2. economic development for the Bedouin population in the Negev
  3. Resolving property claims
  4. Structures and a schedule for the implementation and enforcement of the plan

The Israeli government describes the law being part of a campaign for the development of the Negev, and the plan should better integrate the Bedouins into Israeli society.

The plan envisages the relocation of 37 Bedouin villages to a new area near the Abu Dis landfill in east Jerusalem . Most of the resettled Bedouins are said to settle in Abu Basma. When Israel was founded in 1948, the 80,000 Bedouins who had lived in the Negev desert for around 1,000 years were also expropriated by 30,000  hectares .

Since then, further expropriations of arable and pasture land and resettlements in cities and villages such as Lod , Ramla , Tel Aviv , Rahat , Lakiya , Hura , Kuseife , Arara and Shaqib al-Salam followed in the period between 1960 and 1980.

March 30th, on which a peaceful general strike took place in 1976, has since been a “National Day of Remembrance for the Protests of the Palestinian People”. Nevertheless, there were further expropriations of 1,250 hectares in 1991 and 1,450 hectares in 1998. In 1948, according to Israeli law, the Arab minority was still allowed to own 1.65 hectares per capita; today it is 0.05 hectares per capita. Riah Abu Assal , Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem until 1998 , said : “We have no more place to bury our dead ... I am not exaggerating. I live in a city called Nazareth, which has become the most crowded city in the country ... "

The Praver Plan provides for the expropriation of two-thirds of all Bedouin land in the Be'er Sheva region, for which they are to be compensated at least 50 percent. The forced relocation is expected to take place within the next five years. In January 2012, this was the case for the first 2,300 people.

background

While the Bedouins are to be removed from the Negev and their villages have already not been supplied with electricity and water by the government, the settlement of Jewish families is being promoted by the government. For Jewish Israelis, agricultural settlements are being built in the Negev, for which roads, water and power lines are also being built, often in the immediate vicinity of Bedouin villages that have no infrastructure.

Criticism and protests

A United Nations committee called for the bill to be withdrawn. The United Nations Human Rights Representative called on the Israeli government to reconsider the plan, as it involves the destruction of up to 35 Bedouin villages and the relocation of 40,000 people from those villages from their ancestral homes: “If this plan is implemented, it will accelerate the destruction of entire Bedouin communities; they are being forced to give up their houses, their right to land occupation is denied and their traditional culture and way of life are being destroyed under the guise of 'development'. "

In September 2013, Human Rights Watch and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the destruction of Palestinian homes and infrastructure, etc. a. in the Negev.

The European Parliament also sharply criticized the plan.

Also Adalah , a human rights organization that campaigns for the rights of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (or 1.2 million people, or 20 percent of Israeli citizens) describes the Prawer plan as discriminatory and said that the law the mass expulsion of Arab Bedouin from the Naqab (Negev). If fully implemented, it will result in the destruction of 35 "unrecognized" Bedouin Arab villages and the dispossession and forced relocation of 70,000 Bedouins with Israeli citizenship.

In January 2012 there was a demonstration in Beersheba against the Praver plan.

Before the plan was approved in September 2011, demonstrations of 10,000 people took place in Beersheba and 6,000 in Jerusalem.

Criticism of the plans of the Israeli government comes from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations OCHA : It calls for an explicit agreement with the representatives of the Bedouins: “As an occupying power, Israel has a duty to protect the Palestinian civilian population and to protect the territory Manage the welfare of the population. Any voluntary movement or relocation of civilians must meet international standards, including with regard to free and informed choice. "

It also warned that the Bedouin way of life and health should be taken into account during the resettlement: “The proposed area does not meet the minimum standards for distance to municipal landfill, which poses a threat to the health of Bedouin communities and limits their access to pastureland. Families who have been relocated before report negative consequences such as health problems, loss of livelihood, precarious living conditions, the loss of communal cohesion and traditional ways of life. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jillian Kestler-D''Amours: Israel's Bedouin eviction plan Opposed . Al Jazeera , November 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d Cabinet Approves Plan to Provide for the Status of Communities in, and the Economic Development of, the Bedouin Sector in the Negev . Prime Minister's website, September 11, 2012.
  3. ^ Alistair Dawber: "This is our land": Protests at the plan to remove Bedouins from ancestral villages . The Independent , Aug. 7, 2013;
    Ben White: Bedouin transfer plan shows Israel's racism , Al Jazeera , September 13, 2011;
    Harriet Sherwood: Bedouin's plight: “We want to maintain our traditions. But it's a dream here ” . The Guardian , Nov. 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Maj. Gen. (ret.) Doron Almog to be Appointed as Head of the Staff to Implement the Plan to Provide Status for the Bedouin Communities in the Negev . PMO official site, December 1, 2011
  5. ↑ Cabinet approves Prawer Report to resolve land issues in the Negev ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , UK Task Force on Issues Relating to Arab Citizens of Israel , 19 September 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uktaskforce.org
  6. ^ Bedouins in the three-room apartment , Der Tagesspiegel , September 5, 2013
  7. ^ Bedouins in the Negev: Protest against planned mass resettlement , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 14, 2013
  8. ↑ Lazar Berman: Government shelves Prawer plan on Bedouin settlement , The Times of Israel , 12 December 2013
  9. ↑ Ben Sales: Unlikely right-left partnership floated to oppose Bedouin resettlement , JTA, December 10, 2013
  10. ↑ incomindios.ch (PDF)
  11. ↑ zionismus-israel-raumplanung.blogspot.de
  12. ↑ Nur Masalha: Those present, absent and indigenous resistance . (PDF). In: Der Schlepper , 45 (Refugee Council Schleswig-Holstein eV), October 2008.
  13. ↑ http://senderfreiespalaestina.de/negev.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / senderfreiespalaestina.de  
  14. ^ Catrina Stewart: Israel's bulldozers vs the Bedouin Arabs . The Belfast Telegraph.
  15. ↑ Dana Weiler-Polak: UN panel urges Israel to shelve 'racist' Bedouin relocation plan , Haaretz , March 26, 2012.
  16. ^ UN rights chief urges Israel to reconsider bill that would displace thousands of Bedouins , UN News Center, July 25, 2013.
  17. ↑ Ethnic Cleansing by Bureaucracy: Israel's policy of destroying Palestinian homes , Mondoweiss, October 3, 2013.
  18. ↑ Jack Khoury: European Parliament condemns Israel's policy toward Bedouin population , Haaretz, July 8, 2012.
  19. ↑ Demolition and Eviction of Bedouin Citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev) - The Prawer Plan ;
    approved , Adalah, June 26, 2013.
  20. ^ Eliezer Sherman: Hundreds protest Beduin relocation plan in Beersheba . Jerusalem Post, Jan. 29, 2012.
  21. ↑ http://senderfreiespalaestina.de/negev.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / senderfreiespalaestina.de  
  22. ↑ incomindios.ch (PDF)