Hajj Freij Hawashla, born in 1939, drinks tea at the unrecognised Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah, east of Dimona city in southern Israel, on May 29, 2024. Every day, Hassan Hawashla, 40, looks out his window and sees the Israeli city of Dimona moving closer, embodying fears his Bedouin desert village could soon be evicted. Dimona, a hub of Israeli nuclear power, has plans to nearly double its size, local government documents show, and cranes dot its outskirts where new residential neighbourhoods are being built. About 30 percent of the Bedouin population, a nomadic Arab ethnic group, live in dozens of similar villages in the Negev desert, also known as Naqab in Arabic, according to Israeli nonprofit Bimkom. Another village, Wadi al-Khalil, was wiped off the map last month after Israeli authorities ordered its demolition to clear space for a highway expansion. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)