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October 10, 2011. Sown and irrigated wheat fields between Kibbutz Shoval and Mishmar HaNegev (lit., “Guard of the Negev”). The darker areas on the surface of the earth indicate shadows of clouds above. These two kibbutz points were established on the same day, as part of the eleven “points” operation in the Negev, on the night of October 5–6, 1946, after the Yom Kippur fast (see 2). The fields were transferred to Jewish hands after 1948 and the displacement of the former Bedouin village of al-Huzayyil/Ḥkūk. The villagers, belonging to the Tiyāha tribe, asked for permission to stay, swearing loyalty to the state, but in the first months of 1949 were deported into the siyag, a closed area in the more arid parts of the Negev, east of Beersheba, then to Hebron, and a year later to the Sinai Peninsula.