General strike in Negev protesting Prawer plan

High Steering Committee of the Arabs of the Negev called for a general strike on Sunday protesting the Israeli government's decision to approve Prawer plan.

The call for the strike came to coincide with a visit of a delegation of the Israeli parliament to Negev area to convince the Committee's members to vote in favor of the law.

Arab member of the parliament Talal Abu Arar, a member of Steering Committee, stated that the strike will also include local authorities, shops, and schools.

Abu Arar confirmed that the Interior Affairs Committee of the Knesset continued to approve Prawer Plan in total disregard of Arab citizens in Negev and the Arab Members of Knesset.

Israel’s Prawer plan aims to forcibly displace up to 50,000 Palestinian Bedouins in the Nagev desert, confiscate 800,000 dunums of land, and confine the Bedouins to one percent of the land.

Palestinians across the country are calling for a day of “Anger and Strike” and plan to take to the streets in their thousands.