Bedouin

No reason was given to a Beit Jala family whose livelihood was destroyed by Israeli bulldozers earlier this month.

Bedouin communities not recognized by the Israeli government not only face frequent home demolitions and land confiscation, but limited access to clean water.

Jillian Kestler-D’Amours talks to The Electronic Intifada about her new film focusing on the Bedouin village of al-Araqib and the women, men and children who resist displacement by the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund.

The Israeli government plans to forcibly displace 27,000 Bedouins in the occupied West Bank within three to six years.

More than 70 percent of Bedouin girls drop out of school in Israel, where access to education is restricted.