http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/11/20121188225339505.html

Many believe the impending evacuation of the Masafar Yatta villages, and the subsequent creation of a sizeable civilian-free military training area comes in conjunction with another large-scale Israeli military move taking place just across the Green Line in the Naqab (Negev) Desert.

Israel's planned 5,000 dunum "Intelligence City" in the Naqab is to be comprised of several military bases from central Israel that will be disassembled, moved to south, and built on top of several unrecognised Bedouin villages, currently home to about 2,000 Palestinian citizens.

http://www.imemc.org/article/63501

Lecker added that the army displaced the villagers, and that the main road that leads to the village was also declared a closed military zone as it also leads to the military base. This prevents the residents from entering their own village, and denies the children their right to basic education.

Dror Etkes, Peace Now Movement’s Settlement Watch Director, told Haaretz that three illegal settlement outposts in the area have recently expanded into the live fire military training zone, adding that the settlers are moving freely in the area without any restrictions imposed on them by the army.

The three illegal outposts are Avigail, Havat Ma’on and Mitzpeh Yair. Etkes told Haaretz that he has never heard of any military drill in this live-fire area that is being used by the settlers.