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Bedouin boys in the unauthorized shanty town in the Negev where Israel destroyed more than two dozen homes last summer.
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Children walk past a Bedouin shanty in Wadi Sa'awa, an unrecognized community that Israel is threatening to destroy.
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A Bedouin girl plays in her unauthorized shanty town in the Negev. Israel destroyed more than two dozen homes here last summer.
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Bedouin children stand near shanties demolished last summer by the Israeli government on the outskirts of Hiran, an unrecognized village in the Negev Desert.
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The remains of a home demolished by the Israeli government lie on the edge of an unauthorized Bedouin shanty town in the Negev Desert.
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The unauthorized Bedouin shanty town of Wadi Sa'awa. A few years ago, the Israeli government came and declared it a military training area.
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Bedouin Hassam Finseh looks at the order from the Israeli government that is threatening to destroy his unauthorized home in the Negev community of Wadi Sa'awa. "Where shall I go?" asked Finseh. "Do they want me to go to heaven?"
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Bedouin Hassan al Finesh stands outside Wadi Sa'awa.
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Mohammed Salameh, his four wives and 30 children all live in an unauthorized shanty town in the Negev out the outskirts of Hiran, an unauthorized Bedouin village.
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Mohammed Salameh's first wife, known as Umm Isbali, said she feels betrayed by an Israeli government that keeps trying to push them off their land.
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One of Mohammed Salameh's wives holds one of her children.
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Children play on a dirt mound outside Hura, one of seven towns set up by Israel especially for the Bedouin. The towns are among Israel's poorest.
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Shai Dromi, a Jewish-Israeli farmer in the Negev who is facing manslaughter charges in the death of a Bedouin trespasser. Dromi is under lax house arrest at his farm.
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