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Article

2 Jul 2007

Author:
Adri Nieuwhof in The Electronic Intifada

Volvo: Symbol of safety or human rights abuses?

According to a spokesperson from the Association of Forty, the unrecognized Bedouin Arab villages Atir and Um Hayran in the Naqab (Negev) were aggressively attacked on Monday...25 June 2007 by more than 1,500 Israeli soldiers...Hussein al Rafay'a, head of the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages (RUCV) in the Naqab, was arrested because he tried to block the Israeli forces and machinery...His colleague managed to take pictures of the demolitions, showing how the...Volvo bulldozers razed the homes of the Bedouin villagers to the ground. At least twenty houses were demolished...leaving over 150 men, women and children homeless...[T]he New England United Methodist Church issued a report...[which] includes a list of twenty companies, including Volvo, from which United Methodist individuals, churches and investment managers in the New England Conference are encouraged to divest...The report states, "Volvo bulldozers have been photographed and videotaped destroying Palestinian homes. They have also been used in Israel's construction of the Separation Wall, which is on Palestinian land and has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice..."

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