Bedouin villagers slated for evacuation take their struggle to the streets
After the legal process failed, residents of Atir and Umm al-Hiran protest and vow not to allow their homes to be demolished.
Some 300 residents of the villages Atir and Umm al-Hiran, Israeli Arab lawmakers and other activists from all over the country marched in Be’er Sheva Thursday in protest against the government’s intention of evicting them from their villages and demolishing their homes in order to build a new Jewish community, Hiran, on the ruins.

The public battle is taking place after a long and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle. In January Supreme Court President Miriam Naor rejected a petition by the residents and Adalah – The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel‎‏, for another discussion of the future of their eviction.