The Bigger Picture of the Negev’s Umm al-Hiran
For the past 60 years, Arab Palestinian Bedouin populations in the Negev desert in southern Israel have struggled to simply stay on their land in the face of discrimination and the threat of displacement. For residents of Umm al-Hiran in the southern Naqab -- the Arabic term for the Negev -- time is running out on a 12-year legal battle against demolition.
