Some 100 protesters held a demonstration in Jerusalem on Sunday in an attempt to prevent the Israeli government from implementing a plan to remove Negev Bedouins from areas a court ruled were not theirs.

"We came here today since the last part of the demolishing process has begun," Daniel Argo, a left-wing activist told Xinhua.

The authorities have claimed that the Bedouins living in the village of Al-Araqib are illegal squatters.

The dispute over who owns the land of Al-Araqib has been going on for decades, and in the last years the Israel Land Authority ( ILA) demolished the village's houses and structures 34 times.

Argo said that the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a quasi- governmental organization that owns some 13 percent of the total land in Israel, has already started the preparations for turning the land into a new forestation project.

The JNF, however, has rejected the claims.

"These actions are merely a small part of a much bigger plan to evacuate tens of thousands Bedouins from the Negev (desert in southern Israel)," Agro said.

Although an Israeli court order in 2000 determined that the land indeed belongs to the state, the Bedouin citizens claim that they have lived there since the early 1900's.