Palestinian Bedouin

[4] As of 2013, approximately 40,000 Bedouin reside in the West Bank, split among the Jahalin, Ka’abneh, Rashaydeh, Ramadin, ‘Azazme, Communities of Sawarka, Arenat and Amareen.

The seven government-planned towns were established from the late 1960s onwards in an attempt to urbanize the Palestinian Bedouin, but most of them resisted relocation, fearing that they would lose their historical villages and land claims.

[7] The urbanization process in the Naqab has severely diminished Palestinian Bedouin pastoral and agricultural land use, and endangered their traditional culture.

Traditional Orientalist scholarship portrayed them as landless desert nomads socially and culturally distinct from the rest of the Palestinian population.

The Palestinian Bedouin community met this with strong resistance, led by the Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages (RCUV) and other local organizations.

Coalescing in a strong youth movement (al-hirak al-shababi), they used social media tactics and other nonviolent popular forms of resistance, such as protests and demonstrations.

The Palestinian Bedouin resistance movement against forced displacement, house demolitions and land annexation as envisaged by the Prawer Plan has received strong international attention and support.

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