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The mayor of the predominantly Arab Bedouin city of Rahat, Israel, said that 19 Bedouins had been killed in the assault by Gaza militants and urged the government not to forget that his community were victims of the attack. Ata Abu Mediam said dozens of Bedouins had also been wounded and others kidnapped and taken to Gaza. “We are suffering.
We do not have shelters,' he said, breaking down in tears on army radio on Tuesday morning. 'The country has abandoned us for many years,” he added. Rahat is the largest Negev Bedouin town in Israel's Negev desert. During Israel’s war of independence, nearly 90% of the Bedouin then living in the Negev had to flee, mostly to Jordan. Only about 10,000 were allowed to remain, and were permitted to live in an area around Be’er Sheva known as the Siyaj.
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