Regavim has submitted an application to the Negev Regulation Authority to examine its activities over the past three years and to obtain details of all the regulation agreements signed between Bedouin residents and the Regulation Authority or the Israel Land Authority, regarding the evacuation of illegal settlement and beyond the Authority's regulated plots.
Regavim published today (Thursday) the data it received from the authority established about 15 years ago in a government decision, with the aim of regulating the illegal settlement in the Negev of the Bedouin.
In an application submitted two months ago the association asked how many households reached an agreement and how many were actually settled, the data presented by the authority were that for three years between 2021-2019 only 36 agreements were settled out of 631, a little less than six percent.
From these data, it can be learned that the regulation of the settlements is almost non-existent, Yachin Zik, the director of the Regavim movement's activity, told Israel Today: The Bedouin diaspora in the Negev pours billions of public money into the development of plots that stand empty, but does not perform its main function - to settle the Bedouin from the diaspora.
"There are tens of thousands of buildings scattered, and at the rate of evacuating a single building a month, on average, it will take thousands of years to complete the settlement process, without taking into account natural increase and continued illegal construction that puts us in endless turmoil that means sharp and clear - Negev loss."
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