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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

Bedouin

Syria's security forces enter the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on July 15, 2025, following clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters. (Sam HARIRI / AFP)
IDF strikes Syrian forces moving in on Druze city at center of deadly clashes
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
PM says strikes in line with demilitarization policy, pledge to protect Druze; Damascus says truce reached with factions controlling Sweida, where sectarian violence has killed scores
Najib Abu Gharbiyeh in front of the Wadi al-Na'am's makeshift community center, June 2025. (Ariela Karmel)
Reporter's notebook‘We’d die of hunger before we say we’re hungry’: Food insecurity is rife among Bedouin
By Ariela Karmel
A Druze Syrian man, wounded in the latest rounds of fighting, is surrounded by friends and family members following the withdrawal of government forces from Syria's southern Sweida city on July 17, 2025. (Shadi AL-DUBAISI / AFP)
July 18, 2025, 10:01 am
Dead relatives and looted homes: Syria’s Druze reel as dust settles from bloodshed
‘I can’t keep up with the calls coming in about the dead,’ says one Sweida resident; Druze of south Syria say bodies ‘littered the streets’ as they return home amid tense ceasefire
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Ahmad Abu Ganima poses for a portrait in the window of the minibus buried in the earth, a makeshift bomb shelter his family uses in Khashem Zaneh, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, July 2, 2025. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
July 17, 2025, 10:55 am
Burrowing into ground, Israel’s Bedouin build makeshift bomb shelters to skirt red tape
Residents of unrecognized Negev villages are unable to get permits to construct secure rooms, so instead they improvise what they can, for peace of mind if not actual protection
By AP and ToI Staff
Syria's security forces enter the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on July 15, 2025, following clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters. (Sam HARIRI / AFP)
July 15, 2025, 2:23 pm
IDF strikes Syrian forces moving in on Druze city at center of deadly clashes
PM says strikes in line with demilitarization policy, pledge to protect Druze; Damascus says truce reached with factions controlling Sweida, where sectarian violence has killed scores
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Screen captures from videos purporting to show clashes between Syrian Druze and Bedouin militias in the area of Sweida, southern Syria, July 13, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 14, 2025, 9:21 am
37 said killed in deadly clashes in predominantly Druze city in southern Syria
Governor and Druze spiritual leaders call for calm as local fighters battle Bedouin tribes in Sweida; government sends troops to area to impose security
By AFP and ToI Staff
Najib Abu Gharbiyeh in front of the Wadi al-Na'am's makeshift community center, June 2025. (Ariela Karmel)
July 13, 2025, 8:16 pm
‘We’d die of hunger before we say we’re hungry’: Food insecurity is rife among Bedouin
Report reveals how food insecurity in unrecognized Bedouin villages began during COVID, was exacerbated post-Oct. 7 and has become a chronic issue, after decades of state neglect
By Ariela Karmel
ILLUSTRATIVE: A man holds up his cellular phone certificating that it is 'kosher' at the entrance to an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)
July 2, 2025, 8:45 pm
Minister says IDF neglects Haredim, Bedouins by relying on modern tech for missile alerts
Likud’s Shlomo Karhi tells State Comptroller that ultra-Orthodox and Negev communities are less likely to receive alerts, says IDF ‘irresponsible’ for not expanding alert system
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of health workers. (istock photo/ nanostockk)
June 9, 2025, 10:20 pm
Health Ministry report: Healthcare in the periphery lags far behind the center
Study finds infant mortality rate among Arab babies almost double that of Jewish babies, Arab men have lower life expectancy than Jewish men but Arab women are living longer
By Diana Bletter
Debris from the ruined homes of Bedouins in the Ein Samia community east of Ramallah, May 2023. (Oren Ziv/+972 Magazine).
April 25, 2025, 1:51 pm
‘No future here’: Bedouin hamlets are erased as residents flee settler harassment
Over 1,000 residents of herding communities in West Bank have been displaced in 2 years; they say they face campaign of theft and violence that authorities either ignore or abet
By Nurit Yohanan
At the Rahat Film Festival, February 17, 2025. (courtesy)
February 27, 2025, 5:45 am
In Rahat, an Israeli Jew and a Bedouin mom of 7 have founded a local film festival
In its third year, the Rahat Film Festival is slowly gaining momentum by introducing audiences to such films as ‘Eid,’ the first Ophir award-winner by a Bedouin filmmaker
By Jessica Steinberg
Sha’ban al-Sayed speaks at a press conference at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ichilov, on February 23, 2025 following his son Hisham al-Sayed's release from Hamas captivity. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
February 24, 2025, 6:17 am
Father of ex-hostage Hisham al-Sayed demands outrage from Arab world over son’s condition
Father of Israeli Bedouin Muslim family accuses Hamas of violating the teachings of Islam by exploiting his son, who ‘has mental problems,’ calls for intensifying efforts to free all hostages
By AFP and ToI Staff
Relatives and friends of Youssef Ziyadne and his son Hamza, gather at the family home in the southern Israel city of Rahat, on January 8, 2025, after the IDF said it had recovered Youssef's body and had 'grave concerns' for Hamza's life. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
January 9, 2025, 1:02 am
Family and friends mourn death of hostage Youssef Ziyadne, blame government inaction
Relatives say they had held out hope the 53-year-old father of 19 would be freed alive in an imminent deal; released hostage Farhan al-Qadi eulogizes his childhood friend
By ToI Staff
Cousins (from left) Amin, Jawad, Malek and Mahmoud al-Qoraan, all killed in a rocket strike on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
December 25, 2024, 11:18 pm
Cousins Amin, Jawad, Malek and Mahmoud al-Qoraan, 10, 11, 16 & 16
Slain in a rocket attack on the Bedouin village of Kukhleh in the south on October 7
By ToI Staff
The off-grid technology hub at the Alfoura School in southern Israel. (Courtesy)
December 16, 2024, 10:00 am
Pioneering Bedouin school models sustainable, solar-powered living
First-of-its-kind project, which engages pupils in tech research, stars at confab on solar energy for Bedouin, where planners also announce green light for three new solar fields
By Sue Surkes
Members of Israel's Bedouin community take part in the country's first legal camel race in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Tlalim, on November 1, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 1, 2024, 7:22 pm
First legal camel race held in Israel with thousands of spectators
Bedouin host says Negev event is symbol for coexistence with Jewish communities: ‘We are here together, and we will stay together and we will live here together, in peace’
By ToI Staff
Ahmed Samniya stands by his porch window in Sheikh Danun, Western Galilee, on October 8, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
October 9, 2024, 4:49 pm
One year into the Hezbollah conflict, Arab Israelis confront their complicated identity
Living near the border with Lebanon, Sheik Danun leaders say extremists in the government — not the fighting over the border — make them feel disenfranchised from Israeli society
By Diana Bletter
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