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31°6′46″N / 34°24′10″E
November 13, 2011. Intersecting seismic test lines in the Ḥalutza Sands of the Palestinian village of Naba‛āt, of the Tarabīn tribe, evacuated in 1948 in the wake of Operation Yoʼav, an Israeli military operation carried out from October 15 to 22, 1948, under the command of Yigal Allon which had as its ultimate goal to conquer the entire Negev. The intersecting lines are seismic test lines, part of a large number of parallel cuts that divide this remote corner of the desert into distinct oil exploration zones. Oil was drilled for in the late 1980s but no commercial quantities were found.