Editing Bedouin (section)

=== Palestine ===
{{Main|Palestinian Bedouin}}
[[File:Bedouin tribes West bank.gif|thumb|right|Bedouin tribes in the West Bank]]
[[Palestinian Bedouins]] were originally from the [[Negev Desert]]. In the course of the [[1948 Palestine war]], they fled or were displaced from their land.<ref name="unoptbedouins">{{Cite web |title=Bedouins in the occupied Palestinian territory - UNDP report |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-195392/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}</ref> Other Bedouins were expelled from the Negev in 1953 and had relocated to the [[West Bank]], which at the time belonged to [[Jordan]].<ref name="minorityrights-palestine"/> Today, there are 40,000 Bedouins in the whole of the West Bank, including 27,000 people under Israeli military control in [[Area C (West Bank)|Area C]].<ref name="minorityrights-palestine">{{Cite web |date=2015-06-19 |title=Palestine - World Directory of Minorities & Indigenous Peoples |url=https://minorityrights.org/country/palestine/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Minority Rights Group |language=en-GB}}</ref> Unlike [[Negev Bedouins]], West Bank Bedouins are not [[Israeli citizenship law|Israeli citizens]].<ref name="minorityrights-palestine"/> Bedouin communities in the West bank have been targeted with forcible relocations to townships to accommodate the growth of illegal [[Israeli settlement]]s on the outskirts of [[East Jerusalem]].<ref name="minorityrights-palestine"/> Bedouins also live in the [[Gaza strip]], including 5,000 in [[Om al-Nasr]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hamas' use of excessive force to displace Bedouins angers Gazans - Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/hamas-use-excessive-force-displace-bedouins-angers-gazans |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.al-monitor.com |date=20 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> However, the number of nomadic Bedouins is shrinking and many are now settled.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hammad |first=Tarneem |date=2017-06-07 |title=The Bedouins of Gaza |url=https://wearenotnumbers.org/bedouins_of_gaza/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=We Are Not Numbers |language=en-US}}</ref>