By HERB KEINON

Dozens of police and Border Police evacuated 11 Beduin families from two large encampments in Ma'aleh Adumim yesterday, the third stage in the eviction of the Jahalin tribe from the settlement.

Four Beduin were detained and two injured in the pushing and shoving that accompanied the evacuation, said Peter Lerner, spokesman for the Civil Administration .Some 19 families have been evacuated in stages since the middle of January. Lerner said that another three small encampments with three or four families still await to be removed. Lerner put the total number of Jahalin who will be moved at 200. The Beduin themselves put the number at 400.

Beduin women and children left the sites on their own, leaving only the men, including supporters from nearby Beduin encampments, to put up token resistance. The men were cleared from the sites in a matter of minutes. Movers employed by the Civil Administration mostly Romanian and African workers then went into the shacks and removed the belongings. They also chased goats and chickens and loaded them into trucks. The bulldozers then levelled the shacks.

A number of left-wing supporters were present at the site, but did not intervene. Jeremy Milgrom, from a group called Rabbis for Human Rights, said that he came to the site because he was bothered by the feeling that the Beduin "are looked upon as if they don't count. "They were not taken into consideration," Milgrom said. "As soon as they were in [Ma'aleh Adumim's] way, they were moved."

Milgrom said this case is not similar to instances around the world where certain projects, such as highways, are built and people living on the land in question are given due compensation and moved elsewhere. "When you are building a highway, you are serving the entire public," Milgrom said. "Here only one public is being served, the other is being abused."

Civil Administration and Ma'aleh Adumim officials deny that the rights of the Beduin were abused. Rather, they say, the tribe would have been willing to move months ago had they not been manipulated by the Palestinian Authority and left-wing groups interested in using them as a telegenic symbol for their own political agendas. In August, the Supreme Court gave the green light for eviction of the Jahalin, ending an eightyear legal battle the Beduin tribe waged to remain at the site. Ma'ale Adumim officials say the tribe's encampments are blocking the completion of a new neighborhood. The tribe is being moved to a site some two kilometers away. The Beduin say that the site is unacceptable both because of its proximity to Abu Dis, whose residents, they fear, will claim the land, and because it is too close to the Jerusalem garbage dump.

"We came from [Tel] Arad in 1950, and now they are coming and saying we are criminals," said Suiliman Mazara, whose father lives at one of the tent encampments. "They are saying that we are stealing government lands. But we were here before they were. who are the criminals?"