Bedouins forced to move to landfill sites

Bedouin tents and wandering goats and sheep dot the barren hills from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea, giving residents and visitors a glimpse of how the Holy Land must have looked in pre-biblical times.

With their corrals, water cisterns and tractors the camps look more like rudimentary homesteads, reports
Jihan Abdalla. But the land-friendly nomadic Bedouin tradition is slowly dying out as Israel clears the camps to make way for ever-expanding Jewish urban colonies, further breaking up any plans for a contiguous Palestinian state; and worse: the regime expects these people, who have for countless generations been at one with the land, to live on top of land-fill. The areas they are currently expected to move to are the worst kind of wasteland.

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