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October 4, 2011. The Abu Siām cemetery (within the fenced rectangle at the upper center) and to its left the ruins of the al-Mlaḥi family homestead, demolished in 1948, amid troughs in which seedlings of the JNF Ambassador Forest have been planted. The graves within the cemetery belong to Khalīl Shḥādeh Ḥasan Abu Siām (1905–78), ‛Awad Shḥādeh Ḥasan Abu Siām (1924–2010), Shakir Aḥmad Abu Siām (died at eleven years old, date unknown), and Shḥādeh Ḥasan Abu Siām (1887–1947). The Abu Siām family was expelled and moved to Rahat, the largest of the seven townships constructed to sedentarize the Bedouins. The village of Abu Shunnār/‛Alamāt, of the Tiyāha tribe, was evacuated on October 20, 1948, in the course of Operation Yoʼav (see 7). The shallow field cultivation amid the newly planted forest and surrounding the trees at center is a sign of Bedouin presence and marks a current claim.