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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev

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
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
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
Children taking shelter in Tel Arad, an unrecognized Bedouin village, during a missile strike, June 2025. (Sulayman Abu Godha)
June 28, 2025, 7:10 am
Bridges, tents, and cement pipes: How Bedouin villages sheltered under Iranian strikes
Israel’s conflict with Iran and the resulting missile barrages highlight a longstanding catch-22 for a community that can neither receive government bomb shelters nor build its own
By Ariela Karmel
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
A view of the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hiran, early November 14, 2024. (The Regional Council of the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev)
November 15, 2024, 8:53 am
Unrecognized Bedouin village in Negev razed to make way for new Jewish community
Group representing impoverished towns slams ‘population replacement’ plan set to affect 9,000 residents from 14 localities; demolition said to go ahead over Shin Bet objection
By Noam Lehmann
Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack in the Beersheba central bus station, October 6, 2024, in which Sgt. Shira Suslik (inset) was killed. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90; Israel Police)
October 6, 2024, 5:30 pm
Border cop killed, 10 wounded in terror shooting attack at Beersheba central bus station
Female officer, 19, shot dead by terrorist who opened fire at people at a McDonald’s; gunman was Israeli citizen and relative of perpetrator of 2015 attack inside same bus station
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj, who regularly publishes in the Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, draws an Iranian tank carries a gigantic missile launcher, which only ends up ejecting a small drone carrying a miniature rocket, August 10, 2024. (screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 15, 2024, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 15: Day 314 – Doha talks underway, while Arab cartoonists mock Iran
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian reports on all fronts of IDF operations and a finalized US arms sale to Israel; reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on lack of shelters for Negev Bedouin
By ToI Staff
Bedouin volunteers paint a concrete rocket shelter installed the day before in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Khiran, southern Israel, on December 7, 2023 (Gianluca Pacchiani / Times of Israel)
August 14, 2024, 4:55 pm
As Iranian retaliation looms, thousands of Bedouins still vulnerable to rockets 
Four months after girl, 7, is sole victim of Iran attack, unrecognized Negev communities’ residents fear for their lives amid persisting lack of rocket shelters and Iron Dome cover
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Bashir Ziyadne, 28, at the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, holding images of his second cousin Youssef Ziyadne and Youssef's son Hamza, taken hostage by Hamas, June 27, 2024. (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2024, 8:45 am
‘We challenge the narrative that Hamas are good Muslims,’ says Bedouin hostages’ relative
Bashir Ziyadne has been lobbying for the release of two family members held in Gaza, protesting the Israeli government’s perceived inaction and the Arab world’s indifference
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Amina Hassouna, the seven-year-old Bedouin girl injured in the April 14 drone and missile attack from Iran, at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, May 2024 (courtesy)
June 3, 2024, 6:10 pm
After weeks in hospital, Bedouin girl wounded in Iran attack makes TV appearance
7-year-old Amina Hassouna speaks in front of camera hours before her fourth surgery, while her struggling family faces repeated demolition orders
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Police accompany Real Estate Enforcement Division tractors as they bulldoze the Wadi al-Khalil neighborhood in the southern Bedouin village of Umm Batin, May 8, 2024. (Israel Police)
May 9, 2024, 10:27 am
Authorities level 47 illegal homes in Bedouin village, leaving hundreds homeless
Government yet to start construction on alternative housing, and residents object to moving to new neighborhood due to threats from rival families
By Michael Horovitz
Mohamad Hassouna, who resides in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Fura, stands in a building near where his 7-year-old daughter Amina was injured by an Iranian missile shard in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
May 2, 2024, 10:30 pm
Demolition order issued for home of Bedouin girl hurt in Iran attack, later scrapped
News outlet reveals measure targeting home of seriously injured 7-year-old Amina Hassouna of Al-Fura, sparking backlash on social media and reported rescinding of order
By ToI Staff
Mohamad Hassouna, who resides in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Fura, sits in a building near where his 7-year-old daughter Amina was injured by an Iranian missile shard in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
April 15, 2024, 5:39 pm
‘We have no shelter,’ says Bedouin dad of girl, 7, badly hurt by shrapnel in Iran attack
In Negev Desert, unrecognized Bedouin villages suffer dire lack of protection against rocket attacks, from the Gaza Strip and elsewhere
By AFP and Charlie Summers
Illustrative: Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)
April 14, 2024, 1:47 pm
Young girl seriously hurt in Iran attack remains in life-threatening condition
7-year-old girl from Bedouin community in south sustained head injury when shrapnel from intercepted ballistic missile fell directly on her home
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Bedouin men and children rest in a tent in a Judean desert village, October 26, 2019. (Sara Klatt/Flash90)
March 7, 2024, 8:51 am
Schoolkids in unrecognized Bedouin villages exposed to carcinogenic diesel generators
As legal advocacy organization gears up to challenge state in High Court petition, Jewish and Bedouin activists unite to show that clean, green tech is a better and viable answer
By Sue Surkes
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