The office of the Minister in charge of the Bedouin Authority issued a notice stating that the workers in the Negev must return the tools that protect them. • In response, a letter was sent to the Director General of the Authority
As Israel Today has learned in the last day, an order has been issued from the office of Economy Minister Amir Peretz (in charge of the Bedouin Authority) instructing the Authority's inspectors to deposit their weapons and not go out into the field with them.
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In response, PA employees wrote a scathing letter to PA CEO Yair Maayan in which they resented the decision and implored it to change the decree. "We were surprised to find this morning that employees of the Settlement Department were required to immediately come to the Ministry of Agriculture in Beit Dagan In the letter.
"These weapons were provided to the regulators in order to increase their sense of security when working in places and sites that other state officials refrain from entering, including the Israel Police at certain times."
According to them, "there have been cases in which the workers of the settlement were attacked for their work in the field, as happened last January in the village of Tarabin a-Sana, where the workers and their vehicles were stoned to death.
We would like to announce that the denial of the possibility of carrying a weapon is complete lawlessness, which means sabotage in the work of regulators in remote areas and while performing particularly sensitive work at a time when there is significant extremism in the discourse against the PA and its employees in the field and on social networks. The workers will consider banning regulators from leaving the area.
There is no easing of the law of souls. "
This joins a new trend led by Minister Peretz on the issue of the Bedouin.
In July, for example, Peretz announced that some of the JNF plantings taking place throughout the Negev with the aim of preserving state lands would be frozen and that operations would be removed from inhabited areas, announcing that planting trees "would not be an obstacle to a future series." Additional Bedouins - in the format of the "series on the spot": that is, retrospective recognition of part of the diaspora as a legal settlement, one in the Nevatim area, one near Yeruham and one south of Midreshet Ben Gurion.
Sources involved in what is happening in the Negev say that "what has been happening in the Negev since the authority was transferred to the Ministry of Economy is a disgrace. We are losing the Negev in a big way. The minister succumbed almost on every front to Bedouin demands and achievements slowly built over many years are destroyed."
Minister of General Affairs Amir Peretz said: "I decided to accept the recommendation of the Ministry of Economy, who recommended that I not approve the coordinators of the Armed Forces Armed Forces Authority, since this is a civilian force operating together with civilians inside the State of Israel, and not a military or police force.
In any case where a need arises, we will take care of the safety and security of the employees.
If any objections or other assessments are presented regarding the need to carry a weapon, I will take this seriously. "
Meir Deutsch, director general of the Regavim movement: "Until now, we have seen that from the moment he enters the ministry, Amir Peretz is acting contrary to the long-standing policy of the Israeli governments.
He began to aggressively promote the laundering of illegal dispersal and its recognition as new localities, instead of regulating them in planned and proper permanent localities, and halted JNF afforestation plans to preserve state lands in the Negev. This conduct is far from the Negev vision of Ben-Gurion Is at its head. "
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana agreed today on the establishment of an inter-ministerial committee, which will address the issue of weapons theft from IDF bases and violence in the fire areas in the south.
Lilach Shoval participated in the preparation of the article
