Attorney Rawia Aburabia presents the NCF statement to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues before the planetary of the Ninth Session in 2010. Traditional sowing of barley in Al-Arakib with Al-Turi family, Recognition Forum and the popular committee of the village, November 2009. Photography: Gilad Liberman, Editing: Uri Zakhaim (Hebrew). Uri Zkhaim’s visit to Khirbet Khasif at the remains of Tarabins' historical village. November 2009, following Haia Noachs' book "The existent and non-existent villages, "The Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev”. The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is doing massive works to develop the "Ambassador’s Forest" at Al-Arakib on the lands of Al-Malahi, Abu-Siam, and other families. Photography: Haia Noach, Editing: Social T.V. During the last summer, from May 2009, Nuri Al-Uqbi was harassed by JNFs' workers and tractors. The JNF wanted to develop and plant trees on his lands, before his ownership claims on those lands was decided by the court. Photography: Haia Noach, editing: Uri Zkhaim (Hebrew) Visual Literacy workshop’s brochure in the unrecognized village of Wadi Al-Na'am, in cooperation of the village committee. Reply letter from the ambassador of the Vatican to the NCF’s calendar containing the photos taken by the children of the unrecognized village of Wadi Al Na’am. On November 22nd 2008 the people of the unrecognized village of Rachama together with Recognition Forum - a coalition of NGOs for recognition of the unrecognized villages in the Negev and Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality members have built a fence around the kindergarden which was built by the village committee. The Rachama village has no educational facilities and the children are driven daily many miles to the schools in Wadi AL-na'am, Sqeib A-Salam and Kassa a-Sir. Photography and editing: Uri Zakhaim (Hebrew). Recognition Forum’s traditional sowing of wheat in Al-Arakib with AL-Turi family, December 2008 Photography and editing: Uri Zakhaim Recognition Forum’s water convoy to the village of Tel-Arad which has no runing water, July 2008 (in Hebrew). Photography and Editing" Social T.V. (Hebrew).

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