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October 9, 2011. Unrecognized settlement in the Aravah (Heb., ‛Arava/Arabic, ‛Araba) valley, a few hundred meters below the Moshav ‛Ein Ḥatzeva. Several families have settled here in order to be close to an area of high groundwater content, which provides limited grazing for the herds during the winter months. The three sire (livestock pens, see 10) within the image are for the family’s camels and goats. Until the 1950s, the Bedouins in the area grazed their herds freely, but in the intervening years, with the increasing number of closed military livefire zones, the area open to pastoralists for the grazing of their herds has been diminished. Moshav ‛Ein Ḥatzeva, which takes its name from the spring at the site, was founded in 1960 as an unaffiliated agricultural farm and was soon recognized by the government. The Bedouins retrieve water for their homesteads by filling jerry cans from a pipe at the roadside.