Police: 17 January, 2011
According to the Hitchabrut-Tarabut movement, security forces are not permitting residents of Al Arakib, whose village was demolished yesterday, to enter the village. Professor Gadi Algazi has been under arrest since the morning, after having attempted to enter the area. Police forces chased away residents using rubber bullets and battered some of the residents. Five people have been arrested. The police threatened activists with violence when they refused to leave, says one of the activists present on site.