Ground Truth: Testimonies of Dispossession, Destruction, and Return in the Naqab/Negev

Data, Forensic Architecture, Low Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Data, Desert, Emergency architecture, History, Inhabitable, Mapping, Palestine, Photography, Politics, Population, Territorial Approach, Territory, Urban Paradigms

Map: Ground Truth by Forensic Architecture -- https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/destruction-and-return-in-al-araqib

Ground Truth is an ongoing project that aims to provide historical and juridical evidence on behalf of communities in the illegalised Palestinian Bedouin villages in the northern threshold of the Negev/Naqab desert, Israel. While forced physical displacement and illegalisation render these communities non-existent on maps and aerial imaging, state-led land works and afforestation transform and erase their land and material cultural remains. The project aims to document and collate disparate legal, historical, and material evidence for the continuity of the sedentary presence of the Bedouin population on this land, as well as traces of their repeated displacement and destruction by government forces.