Aqil al-Talalqah, from the Bedouin village of al Twayil Abu Jarwal, stands among the rubble of homes demolished by the Israeli authorities in the Negev near the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva

Nomadic bedouin fight to survive in the village which does not exist

Israel accused of discriminating against Negev desert clans

Officially Twayil Abu Jarwal, a village on the land where the Talalqah clan has lived for generations, does not exist

It is "unrecognised" in the terminology that shapes the bitter land dispute between Israel's 160,000 indigenous bedouin in the Negev desert and the Israeli state

Last year the authorities mounted eight separate operations in Twayil to demolish the homes of those living there, but the villagers stayed on

Now they live in poor quality tents surrounded by the remains of destroyed homes: corrugated iron, bricks and heaps of dirt piled on torn-down tents

"The land they are sitting on today is not their land. This is Israeli land."

Our goal is to stop them