Approximately 15,000 Palestinian Bedouinn live in the Jordan Valley. A community of tribes linked by common history, culture, ancestral bloodline, and lifestyle, the Bedouin are a semi nomadic herding people and are core to Palestinian tradition and culture having roamed the land for thousands of years. Living in traditional tents made of goats’ hair and moving across the land rearing livestock and producing goods such as cheese and milk the Bedouin were very adept at coping in hostile environment. Their survival has always been dependant upon locating in areas rich in natural resources with water and grazing land, migrating to hillsides in the summer and back down to the valleys in early winter.

View the report at http://www.maan-ctr.org/old/pdfs/JordanValleyreport-English.pdf