As opposed to Jewish communities in the Negev, residents of unrecognized villages are unable to legally build any structure – including bomb shelters – because they are not given building permits.
OUR BOYS of the Alqura’n family were killed on October 7 when a Hamas rocket made a direct hit on a corrugated tin structure where they were having breakfast that morning in their unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Bat. (photo credit: JUDITH SUDILOVSKY)ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY