Israel planning to wipe out 45 Arab villages off the map

The Israeli housing ministry is planning to demolish thousands of Arab homes in the Negev and effecting a new transfer by which the Arab inhabitants of 45 villages would be displaced and a million Jews installed in their place. Talab Al-Sane, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset), said in a press statement on Monday that the ministry's planning department had made a field tour of those Arab villages in the company of many contractors to invite tenders for the demolition process. He noted that the Israeli government had earmarked the necessary budget for implementing the judaization of the Negev. Sane warned that the Israeli provocative act would lead to an intifada in the Negev, calling on the Israeli government to re-consider its policy in this regard. The Israeli ministry targets the destruction of 45 villages inhabited by around 85,000 Arabs who own one million dunum of land that the government does not recognize and wants to confiscate.