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Photo: Children of al-Arakib watch as border police enter village (Mairav Zonszein)

NEGEV, (PIC)– The Israeli authorities razed the Palestinian village of Araqib in the Negev desert for the 38th time running.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli army and police forces escorted military bulldozers and heavy tractors and encircled the village.

They said that the troops tore down the tents that the inhabitants had pitched over their destroyed homes.

Araqib, located between Beersheba and Rahet in the Negev and not recognized by the Israeli authorities, was destroyed since 2010 several times and the inhabitants rebuilt it after each destruction time.