Arab organization condemns Israel's building of new towns in northern and southern Israel, calling it an "escalation against the Arab lands"
Headline: “The High Follow-Up Committee [for Arab Citizens of Israel] calls for participation as wide as possible in the Land Day march and the Deir Hanna rally”
“The High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens [of Israel] (i.e., an extra-parliamentary umbrella organization that represents Arab citizens of Israel)… said that Land Day (see note below -Ed.) is arriving this year [2022] in the shadow of a wild escalation by the [Israeli] government against the Arab lands in the Negev. This is in order to impose a tighter blockade on the unrecognized Palestinian towns, at a time when the Israeli government has decided to establish 12 settlements on the lands that were stolen (sic., refers to recently announced towns in the Negev in southern Israel), including a city [named Kasif] for ultra-Orthodox Jews that will be able to absorb 120,000 people…
The committee noted that the Israeli government is continuing the plan of uprooting, and is attempting to impose a plan of alleged recognition for a small number of villages on condition that more than 70% of the villages’ lands will be taken by force, not including the villages that will be completely uprooted (refers to illegal Arab villages in the Negev -Ed.)…
It explained that… the Israeli government is continuing on a number of plans, the most prominent of which is the settlement of Harish (i.e., Israeli town near Caesarea), whose goal is to surround Umm Al-Fahm and the villages of the northern Triangle (i.e., a concentration of Israeli-Arab towns and villages in northern Israel).”