The chairman of the Ra'am party, MK Mansour Abbas, demanded an immediate halt to work on a planting project in the Negev region, which he claims is harming the Arab residents of the region.
Galei Tzahal reporter Yanir Kozin revealed that, after being postponed for a year and a half, the JNF began the planting project on Sunday, and since then, a protest camp has been set up in front of it by residents of the Bedouin diaspora, who are putting pressure on the Ra'am party to act to cancel the work.
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MK Mansour Abbas threatened that a crisis would arise in the government if the issue was not addressed immediately.
Abbas then published a post in which he wrote: "I asked to stop the work immediately. The chairman of the Land Authority and I agreed to stop the work at noon and scheduled an urgent meeting with the aim of reaching solutions.".
Religious Zionist Party Chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich: "This is what the liquidation sale of Zionism to the Islamic movement looks like. We will not forget and we will not forgive the sellers. You did not sell yours. You sold ours. You sold the people of Israel for generations.".
Kozin added and noted: "I saw that people enjoyed the report. Excellent. Just adding an important piece of information, the plantings in the area were stopped a year and a half ago in July 2020 during the Netanyahu-Gantz government. The person responsible for this was Amir Peretz, and it was without a RAAM in the coalition. The plantings were stopped for a year and a half and now they are trying to resume them.".
