In 1967, 35 Palestinian villages that were now on Israeli land were not officially accounted for and were therefore declared to be “unrecognized.” The villages receive no government services and have been demolished time and again even though the The Regional Council for the Palestinian Bedouin of the Unrecognized Villages estimated in 2003 that the population of all of the unrecognized villages was around 74,000. Around 5,000 Palestinian homes in these villages have been demolished.
