that there was no justification whatsoever for the excessive use of lethal forced that caused the deaths of 13 Palestinian citizens of Israel. It found that in October 2000 snipers were used to disperse demonstrations for the first time since 1948, and that this sniper fire, which led to the death and injury of citizens, was illegal and certainly not grounded in the internal regulations of the police governing the use of live fire. Similarly, the Or Commission determined that the firing of rubber-coated steel bullets, which produced fatal results, was also contrary to the internal police. Unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages By the 1990s, there were about 45 Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) that were not officially recognized by the state, even though many of these villages had existed before the state's establishment or residents were moved there by the state itself during the 1950s. Because of their “unrecognized” status, these villages do not receive basic services such as water, healthcare, schools, safe roads and others. In December 1997, Adalah represented 12 of the largest unrecognized villages in the Negev “in a demand for the establishment of basic medical clinics”, where mothers and children seeking treatment had to travel long distances with no public transportation in order to access a health facility. The Bedouin villages in the Naqab have the highest rate of infant mortality in the country as well as the lowest level of immunization. By the mid-2000s ten of the 45 villages were accepted by the state as being “in the process of recognition”. However, the state has not provided full services entailed by that recognition and Adalah continues to pressure the government to fulfill its commitments to these villages. The Prawer plan Stopping the implementation of the “Law for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev” (the “Prawer plan”) is a legislative focus of Adalah. According to human rights groups, the Plan will oversee the demolitions of 35 unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab and the forced relocation of 40,000–70,000 Bedouin citizens to recognized townships. Adalah is representing several villages before the courts to challenge their eviction and demolition orders, including the villages of Umm el-Hieran and Atir, which are to be destroyed to build a Jewish town and a forest on their locations respectively. Adalah regularly submits petitions and letters in partnership with other NGOs and civil society groups, such as the Association