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Regional archaeologists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority inform the head of a local Bedouin community in Al Baqi'a / Kana'im Valley that his tribe cannot revive and maintain the reservoir at Bir Umm Al Atin, which has served them for generations, because the site is designated by the state as a protected Archeological site. Such acts of enclosure by the Israeli authorities, of sites and resources historically linked to the indigenous Bedouin population, reflect a consistent policy of negating and effacing their valuable heritage of desert sustainability.