Land Distribution and Planning Rights
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Land distribution and planning rights are among the spheres in which Arab citizens of Israel are subject to severe inequality and discrimination. Lacking adequate housing solutions and planning infrastructure, which will enable legal construction in Arab villages and towns, residents are left with no choice other than building without permits. Despite the state’s responsibility for this situation, it maintains a policy of house demolitions in Arab localities and mixed cities on the grounds of lacking a permit, and continues to refuse permits for new construction which results in the gradual, systematic strangling of small villages.
ACRI uses legal means and public advocacy to protest home demolitions, to encourage the recognition of unrecognized villages and neighborhoods, to challenge discriminatory policies within mixed Israeli cities, and to oppose new settlement construction on Arab-owned land or in areas currently inhabited by unrecognized populations.
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Firing Zone 918 – What’s the Deal?
March 7, 2013
Who are the ‘cave dwellers’? How does an area turn into a ‘firing zone’? What will happen to them if … Read more
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Firing Zone 918 – What’s the Deal?
March 7, 2013
Who are the ‘cave dwellers’? How does an area turn into a ‘firing zone’? What will happen to them if … Read more
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IDF Training in Firing Zone 918 Despite Injunction Order
February 26, 2013
IDF exercises cause serious harm to the livelihood and lifestyle of the residents of the Yatta District in Area … Read more
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When a Palestinian home isn’t really a home | Tamar Feldman
February 21, 2013
Israel’s Defense Ministry claims that eight West Bank villages, populated by over 1,000 Palestinian residents and continually inhabited … Read more
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Begin Plan for Negev Bedouin Continues Racist Policy of Dispossession
January 28, 2013
The “Begin Plan” approved by the Government yesterday (January 27) is essentially an updated version of the Prawer Plan for … Read more
Legal Work
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ACRI Petitions for Health Clinic in Unrecognized Bedouin Village
October 27, 2008
Residents of Tel Al-Melach must travel for 2.5 hours to reach nearest health clinic, despite State’s commitment to serve Bedouin … Read more
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High Court to Deliberate on JNF’s Discriminatory Land Policy
September 23, 2007
Tenders for Jews Only Violate Rights of Arab Citizens, ACRI argues JERUSALEM – September 23, 2007 – Israel’s High Court … Read more
