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October 9, 2011. Homestead of Muḥammad Salaḥ Abu Kiyān, of the al-Huzayyil tribe, in the region of the unrecognized village of Umm al-Ḥirān. In 1956 members of the Abu Kiyān family were evicted by the military from the land that would then become the expansion of Kibbutz Shoval (see 63) and relocated to Umm al-Ḥirān. The site includes sire (see 10) and vineyards. While the JNF continues the expansion of the Ḥirān Forest, which forms the western limb of the Yatir Forest (see 65), the incursion of the forest has left the Bedouins with no safe place to graze their sheep. Abu Kiyān’s home was already demolished once, in 2007. Although an ongoing court case relates to the family’s claim to the land, demolition orders have been issued for the homestead and a group of settlers awaits the demolition of the remaining sites in order to construct the new settlement of Cheran.