Volunteers from the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee and several political activists had helped the villagers of Al-Araqib rebuild their homes every time the Israeli authorities demolish them. The activists said they will continue to rebuild structures in the village which is located in the southern Negev Desert.

The village was demolished for the fifth time in mid-September, but as in previous instances, it was immediately rebuild.

The Al-Araqib's village committee said in a statement that the police acted violently during the clashes that erupted during demolition.

The committee said the Israeli forces declared the area a closed military zone and prevented journalists from entering it to cover the demolition.

It noted the demolitions were "a routine procedure. Dozens of police officers arrived, followed by bulldozers. They razed all the houses. They ruined everything we built and left nothing. It's a big disgrace."

Awwad Abu Freih, the committee's spokesman, said that the "demolition aims at establishing farms for Jews at the expense of the village residents."

"All attempts to uproot the residents of the village will ultimately fail," Abu Freih said. "The attempt to uproot Bedouin citizens from their communities constitutes a serious insult to all Bedouin."

He added that the demolitions deepen the distrust between the Israeli government and the Bedouin community.

The Arab Member of Israeli Member of Knesset Talab El-Sana said "the demolition operations lead to unrest and disobedience in the Arab sector in general, and the Negev in particular. We are victims of the State of Israel."

El-Sana, of the United Arab List party, vowed the demolished village would be reconstructed, adding that "the only solution is recognition, not displacement; issuing building permits, not demolition."

The ILA stressed that the demolitions were carried our legally and according to a court order that determined the residents invaded an area that were not theirs, and did not act in good faith.