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The new deportation followed an incident Friday in the Bedouin village of Umm Al-Khair in which a 5-year-old Palestinian child, Siwar Al-Hathaleen, was struck by a car driven by a Jewish West Bank settler. Umm Al-Khair is a hotspot for violent confrontations between settlers who are expanding their presence in the area and local Palestinians**, including one last year in which a settler shot to death another member of the Al-Hathaleen clan, Awadh, whose activism had been the subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary**


