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Occupation magazine - Related Issues Home page  back Print  Send To friend More demolition of Bedouin homes and draconean verdicts four years after a protest Amos Gvirtz amosg@shefayim.org.il Don`t Say We Didn`t Know 559 July 25, 2017 On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, Judge Ron Solkin of the Beer Sheva Magistrate Court, sentenced three Bedouins who participated in a protest demonstration at Hura (held on November 30, 2013) to three years in prison and a fine of 25,000 shekels. Two others were sentenced to six months service work, and a 15,000 shekels fine. ---- ---- On Thursday, July 20, 2017, government agents escorted by police came for a day of demolitions of Bedouin houses in the Negev. They destroyed a hous e in Wadi Al Naam, a house near Hura, and a house in Wadi Ghawin, near Mulda. [bz] Links to the latest articles in this section Adam Keller in Berlin, Sept 5-8 Activists protest Tel Aviv arms exhibition: `Arms trade is death trade` In Memeoriam Beate Keller Zilversmidt, 1942-2021