Bedouins in Israel: Partners to the Tragedy and the Resilience Process
The Arab community of the Negev was deeply affected by Hamas’ terror attack of October 7 with over 20 murdered and seven kidnapped
By Debbie Mohnblatt/The Media Line
Among the victims of Israel’s “Black Sabbath” massacre were some 300,000 Israeli Arabs—part of the 20% of the population that forms the Israeli Arab sector—who are residents of the Negev desert in southern Israel.
On October 7, “all of us Negev residents,” said Mofed Abu Swelm, field coordinator at the Coexistence Forum, “woke up to a very harsh day with rockets. They [Hamas terrorists] entered the country, and there were people murdered from both the Bedouin community and the Jewish community,” he told The Media Line.
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