Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev

The Prawer Plan ( heb. Tochnit Prawer תוכנית פראוור ) is a plan of the Israeli government, which provides for, among other things, 40000-70000 Palestinians in the Naqab / Negev to drive them out of their villages, which are not recognized by the government, and in villages that are set up by the government to resettle.

Formation

The Prawer Plan was drafted in September 2011, when the Israeli government approved a controversial " five-year plan for economic development ." It provides, inter alia, the relocation 40000-70000 Bedouins from the Naqab / Negev.

The bill is based on the a Commission chaired by Ehud Prawer, the Chairman of the Department of Policy Planning in the Prime Minister's Office proposal. The Commission's proposal, in turn, based on the recommendations of a committee under the chairmanship of former Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice Eliezer Goldberg. The Chairman of the Committee for the implementation of the plan is the former military commander for southern Israel, Doron Almog. Minister Benny Begin was commissioned by the Cabinet to coordinate feedback from the public on the issue.

Content

After Pressekommunikee the Prime Minister, the plan regulates the following:

The law is described as part of a campaign for the development of the Negev. He should better integrate the Bedouin into Israeli society.

The government says that the plan provides to improve infrastructure for the Bedouin.

Most resettled Bedouin to settle in Abu Basma.

Background

While the Bedouin should be removed from the Negev and their villages are not already been provided by the government with electricity and water, the settlement of Jewish families is funded by the government. For Jewish Israelis agricultural settlements are built in the Negev, for which roads, water and power lines to be built, often in close proximity to the Bedouin villages that do not receive infrastructure.

Criticism

A committee of the United Nations called for the withdrawal of the bill. The UN human rights commissioner urged the Israeli government to reconsider the plan because it provides for the destruction of up to 35 villages of the Bedouin and the resettlement of 40 000 inhabitants of these villages from their ancestral residence: "If this plan is implemented, is he accelerate the destruction of entire communities of the Bedouins; they are forced to abandon their homes, their right to Grundbesetz denied them and their traditional culture and way of life is being destroyed under the guise of 'development'. "

In September 2013 condemned Human Rights Watch and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the destruction of Palestinian homes and infrastructure, etc. in the Negev.

The European Parliament criticized the plan also sharp.

Also Adalah, a Menschrenrechtsorganisation, which campaigns for the rights of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship ( ie 1.2 million people, or 20 percent of Israeli citizens ) describes the Prawer plan as discriminatory and said that the law the mass expulsion of Arab Bedouin in the Naqab ( Negev ) provides. When it is fully implemented, it will lead to the destruction of 35 " unrecognized" Bedouin Arab villages and the expropriation and forced relocation of 70 000 Bedouin with Israeli citizenship.

In January 2012 there was a demonstration in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan.