This report reflects the findings of a high-level International Fact-finding Mission that visited the villages and townships of al-Naqab/Negev in southern Israel just after the publication of recommendations by the government-appointed Commission for Regulating Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, headed by former Chief Justice Eliezer Goldberg. The Goldberg Commission has augured a new way for the State of Israel to deal with the Naqab’s indigenous citizens, part of the Palestinian people. The fact-finding on the ground and subsequent monitoring of legal and policy developments, particularly house demolitions and dispossession revealed in this report, show a continuity of institutionalized discrimination, a fact that the Goldberg Commission recognized while interpreting Israeli law as applied to the affected communities.

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