Awwad Abu Freih, the spokesman of the Al-Araqib's village committee, said that the ILA inspectors arrived at the village under the protection of Israeli police and violently evicted the residents from their homes.
Abu Freih added that the inspectors confiscated the ingredients of the homes and transferred them to unknown locations before the bulldozers began the demolition process.
He said the Israeli forces declared the area a closed military zone and prevented Arab and Israeli leftist activists and journalists from entering it to show solidarity or to cover the demolition.
The village, which is located in the southern Negev Desert, was demolished for the eleventh time on Jan. 31, but as in previous instances, it was immediately rebuild.
Volunteers from the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee and several Arab and Israeli political activists had helped the villagers of Al-Araqib rebuild their homes every time the Israeli authorities demolish them. The activists said that they will continue to rebuild structures in the village.
Abu Freih said the "demolition aims at establishing farms for Jewish residents of Givot Bar settlement at the expense of the village residents and a message from the Israeli government that it will not recognize the village."
Talab El-Sana, the Arab Member of Israeli Member of Knesset, said "the demolition operations lead to unrest and disobedience in the Arab sector in general, and the Negev in particular. We are victims of the State of Israel."
El-Sana, of the United Arab List party, said that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is "crossing of red lines" and "declaring war on the Arab citizens."
He warned that the "Israeli usage of violence against Arab citizens instead of dialogue will lead to new circles of violence in the area."
El-Sana vowed the demolished village would be reconstructed, adding that "the only solution is recognition, not displacement; issuing building permits, not demolition."
The ILA reiterates its stance that the demolitions were carried our legally and according to a court order that determined the residents invaded an area that were not theirs, and did not act in good faith.
The ILA said the evacuation Bedouins was conducted after many years of legal — and physical — battles against the Al-Touri tribe. The ILA said the Al-Touri tribe invaded the area, which is state land, in 1998 and in 2000 a court order was handed down banning them from entering the area. But the tribe moved in and planted trees. The ILA offered to rent them the land at a price of 2 Israeli shekel per dunam, but they refused to pay.