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October 9, 2011. Fenced perimeter of the al-Tūri cemetery within the demolished unrecognized Bedouin village of al-‛Araqīb. The village was first destroyed by the Israeli military and Green Patrol (an environmental paramilitary unit) in July 2010, and the remaining families moved into the fenced-up area of their ancestral cemetery. Earthworks around the cemetery were begun by the JNF immediately following the demolition, in preparation for the extension of the Ambassador Forest. Six blue protest tents marking the former habitation have been erected above the cemetery and within the troughs prepared for planting by the JNF. In the following two years these tents would be demolished more than fifty times, each time rebuilt by the remaining members of the al-Tūri community. On June 12, 2014, the Israeli Land Authority (ILA), accompanied by the Security Police and the JNF, demolished all the remaining dwellings within the cemetery, leaving only the gravestones and a makeshift tent used as a mosque.