Umm al-Hiran

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Umm al-Hiran (2017)

Umm al-Hiran ( Arabic أم الحيران, Hebrew אום אל-חיראן) is a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in southern Israel . The village, founded in 1956, is located east of the village of Hura on highway 316 and is one of around 35 Bedouin villages not recognized by Israel in 2017.

history

Umm al-Hiran is one of two unrecognized villages that are currently home to the Abu al Qi'an tribe . The sub-tribe of the Hkuk tribe (tribal confederation Tijaha) has been demonstrably residing in the North Negev reserve since the mid-1950s. Before 1948 the tribe lived in what is now Kibbutz Schoval . The area near Hura was assigned to the tribe in 1956 by the then Israeli military administration, but was never officially recognized as a locality.

At the end of 2010, the Prime Minister's office immediately blocked the decision of the National Planning and Building Council to officially recognize the town of Atir-Umm al-Hiran.

Demolition plans

Since the early 2000s, there have been various plans to evacuate the village in order to be rebuilt by the state, as well as attempts by residents and organizations to prevent this. In 2012, the National Planning and Building Council approved plans for the Hiran settlement, in which, according to state representatives, the Bedouins could also settle. In November 2013, the Israeli government approved the development plan and several families in the village, with the help of the Adalah organization, petitioned the demolition and evacuation plans for the village. The main point of contention between the villagers and the state was whether the allocation of land was permanent or temporary. The petition was rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court in May 2015. From the point of view of the court, the State of Israel is the owner of the temporarily leased land and is therefore entitled to determine the development. Judge Daphne Barak Erez disagreed in part with Judge Eljakim Rubinstein by at least advocating more generous compensation.

In November 2016, after massive protests, demolition plans by the Israel Land Administration were postponed again.

Incidents of January 18, 2017

On January 18, 2017, a resident and an Israeli police officer were killed during demolition work in the village. Knesset MP Ayman Odeh , one of several members of the Joint List present , was also injured . Both the police and the Israeli security minister Gilad Erdan initially said that the villager was a terrorist inspired by the so-called Islamic State who attacked the police with his vehicle. The autopsy report, eyewitness reports and video recordings called this thesis into question. Internal investigations were launched in the Ministry of Security at the end of February. In March 2017, Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel publicly apologized for "serious mistakes that have been made" in connection with the incident and admitted that there had been no terrorist attack.

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Bedouins in the State of Israel. In: Lexicon of Terms on the Knesset homepage . 2010, accessed on June 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Depending on the transliteration and a. also Abu Alkiyan, Abu Alkian or similar
  4. ↑ Public Registration Office, Be'er Sheva , numbers from September 1, 1960, quoted from Werner Richter: Nomadism in the Negev and on the Sinai Peninsula . Phases and problems of the settling down of mobile life form groups since the 19th century (= Enno Seele, Hans W. Windhorst [Hrsg.]: Vechtaer Arbeit zur Geographie und Regionalwissenschaft . Volume 1 ). Vechtaer Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Vechta 1985, ISBN 3-88441-075-X , p. 55 , table 5 .
  5. ↑ Jack Khoury: PMO Blocks Recognition of Bedouin Villages. In: Haaretz . November 17, 2010, accessed June 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Michal Rotem: Umm al-Ḥīrān - The story of a Bedouin village in Israel. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office, March 7, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Adiv Sterman: Bedouin to be evacuated to make way for Jewish town, in: Times of Israel of November 10, 2013, accessed on December 26, 2017 (English)
  8. ^ Yonah Jeremy Bob: High Court rejects final appeal to stop demolition of Umm-al-Hiran Beduin village. In: The Jerusalem Post . January 18, 2017, accessed June 26, 2017 .
  9. ^ Ari Briggs: A Jewish Town Or an Arab Village? In: The Jerusalem Post . January 25, 2017, accessed June 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b Magda Albrecht: Destruction of a Bedouin village in the Naqab / Negev desert - a chronology. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office, February 23, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2017 .
  11. ^ Israeli policeman and Bedouin killed during clashes over demolitions. In: BBC News . January 18, 2017, accessed June 26, 2017 .
  12. ^ Minister implies Bedouin village incident not a terror attack. In: The Times of Israel . February 21, 2017, accessed June 26, 2017 .
  13. ^ Minister apologizes to Bedouin over Umm al-Hiran incident. In: The Times of Israel . March 6, 2017, accessed June 26, 2017 .