On 18 January, before dawn, a large police force entered Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin village in the Negev, with the objective of demolishing illegal buildings. During the event, village inhabitant Yaqub Musa Abu al-Qian and senior sergeant-major Erez Levi were killed. The police claimed that Abu al-Qian had carried out a vehicle-ramming attack, but the video, together with photos taken from the police helicopter, attest to the fact that Police Officer Erez Levi was hit only after Abu al-Qian was shot, thus losing control over the vehicle.