Member of the Rahat municipal staff, Ata Abu Mdeighem, has warned of an Israeli pre-planned scheme of ethnic cleansing aimed at mass-murdering the Palestinian residents of Negev, occupied Palestine.

Abu Mdeighem, who is acting municipality chief of Rahat, warned of Israeli intents to perpetrate genocides against the Palestinians of Negev city under the back-up of the Israeli extremist right-wing government. 

The official spoke out against an attack launched by the Israeli police on a group of Palestinians marching in the funeral procession of the martyr Sami al-Jaar, resulting in the murder of Sami al-Zayadna and in dozens of injuries among the Palestinian mourners.

Abu Mdeighem raised alarm bells over simmering Israeli antagonism against the Palestinians of Negev, adding that Israel’s sadistic impulses have hit the climax with the advent of the electoral race and the scramble of Israeli officials to win as many votes as they possibly could in the upcoming ballot. 

“But such racist practices have made the unity bonds between the Palestinians of Negev stronger,” he said.

He further called on the Palestinian masses to stand firm in the face of Israel’s mounting crimes and terror campaigns, pushing for an urgent appeal to international courts and institutions.

“Israel discriminates between the milk fed to the Arab child and the one fed to the Jewish child,” he said. 

“Israel has not only reduced our family homes into heaps of pile, it has misappropriated our lands, uprooted our trees, swallowed up our harvest, and denied us the right to set up roots of our own in our only mother land,” he warned.

“Now Israel aims at taking away our lives and those of our innocent children,” the official added.

He warned of an anti-Arab agenda targeting the Palestinians of Negev and falling in line with a simmering crisis rocking the Israeli government and Knesset.

"Israel’s right-wing government would like to fashion an image for itself as Jews’ `knight in shining armor',” he said, warning of parallel intents to force Arabs to throw in the towel.

Negev has been boiling with rage in the wake of Israel’s murder of the youths Sami al-Jaar and Sami Zayadna, bringing the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli police in 1948 Occupied Palestine since the 2000 al-Aqsa intifada to at least 51.