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<p>THE NEGEV, (PIC)&#8211; Israel has planned  to confiscate a million square meters of Palestinian and Arab land in  the Negev desert, occupied in 1948, on the anniversary of Land Day which  fell two days ago, the president of the council of regional villages of  the Negev, Ibrahim al-Waqili warned.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The plan falls under the recommendations  made by the Israeli Goldberg committee which was formed in 2008 headed  by retired judge Eliezer Goldberg.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">”The disclosure of these plans on the  anniversary of Land Day will only increase our determination to continue  to struggle. There will be no bargains or concessions on the land. We  have paid the tax of blood and have given martyrs to preserve our  existence,” said Waqili.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He added that Israeli occupation  authorities have sights set to settle 300,000 Jews in the Negev within  the next ten years and wants to accelerate the implementation of the  said recommendations.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Israel considers the recommendations a  project to settle the conflict and organize housing in 45 unrecognized  Arab villages where nearly 120,000 people live. Israel wants to seize a  million square meters of land and turn it into state property and  demolish nearly 30,000 homes and pay compensation over the land,  reserving only 200 thousand square meters for the Arabs.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Waqili told Al-Jazeera.net that his council has rejected the recommendations and has refused to bargain the land.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He said that steadfastness would be the best response to thwart the plan.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Israel has begun implementing a plan  targeting individual farms in the Negev and has set up nearly 70 farms  across thousands of square meters.</p>
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