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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					09/02/2011 &#8211; 04:51 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">NABLUS, (PIC)&#8211; The IOF leveled an  entire village near the West Bank city of Beit Furik on Wednesday  morning also confiscating private property. It argued it was established  on a closed military zone.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Meanwhile, residents of the Negev village of Araqib are left homeless for the 16th time.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">”Military bulldozers backed by scores of  soldiers cordoned off the area and forced locals to evacuate and began  demolishing the homes and cattle barns and warned Bedouins not to enter  again,” witnesses said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">”There is a Zionist scheme to displace the people,” residents of the ruined Tana village said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Israel has seized since 1967 around 18,000  dunums of the village&#8217;s land for the interest of military camps and  Jewish settlements in the area.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Locals are exposed to frequent gunfire from the Israeli army, which has mapped the region a training zone.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Tana, near the border with Jordan, falls  on the eastern slopes of the northern Jordan Valley, and has been  included in an Israeli project designed to draw up a dividing line  between the Palestinians and Jordan.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The same morning, the army wiped out the Negev village of Araqib for the 16th straight time.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The villagers had rebuilt their makeshift  homes the previous night after their village unrecognized by Israel was  erased the same day.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">They were forced to take shelter at a nearby Islamic cemetery.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Ibrahim Al-Waqili heading the council of unrecognized villages in the Negev said the situation in the desert area is volatile.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7mcnsqOHRkQNL0mTSIRIOf7UjQOQFS1gqs9ijYajDqK5ERxAsPgKOT4aeJHWETgLfOBUM3rftD%2f0eC%2fMwbtl%2fErHnBZZ4LZ3yMkw8j%2bT%2bAO4%3d">IOF levels entire village in Jordan Valley</a>.</p>
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