Bedouins in southern Israel face the permanent threat of demolition by the authorities. Israel refuses to recognize them, considering them illegal and without the right to housing or infrastructure.
There are, in total, 36 towns inhabited by some 150,000 people to whom the authorities, unlike the rest of the Israelis, do not provide shelters or an alarm system for attacks like the one last weekend. The little girl is the only serious victim left by the attack that Iran launched with hundreds of drones and missiles in the early hours of Sunday against Israel. “This is a place that has always been at war, and so will next year,” says Halil Gaboa, deplores the need for shelters on the town's outskirts. ‘We don't have anything to shelter in,’ says Salah, his cousin, 31 years old and father of six children. � “All the children panicked. They were crying, they didn't know where to hide as they ran towards the mountain."