Bedouins evicted from a cordoned off area south of the Gaza Strip have demanded the return of their lands and say they don’t want compensation. The demand was contained in letters to Premier Golda Meir, to several Cabinet ministers and to the Knesset Speaker from Ahmed el Hilou, brother of the chieftain of the E1 Hilou tribe, the largest in the region.
The authorities say the Bedouins had no title to the land during the period of Egyptian rule before the Six-Day War and that Egyptian law is still in force in the Gaza Strip and Sinai. The cordoning-off of the region was undertaken by the Army for security reasons.
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