ISRAEL Umm Al-Hiran, Negev desert
People wait for evening prayer near a mosque, seen at left. Some 500 members of the Al-Qiyaan tribe have inhabited Umm Al-Hiran since 1956, but now face an order of relocation to the neighboring governmental Bedouin town of Hura, to clear the village for a new Orthodox Jewish community.
People wait for evening prayer near a mosque, seen at left. Some 500 members of the Al-Qiyaan tribe have inhabited Umm Al-Hiran since 1956, but now face an order of relocation to the neighboring governmental Bedouin town of Hura, to clear the village for a new Orthodox Jewish community.