‘Before 1948, 65,000-90,000 Bedouin lived in the Negev desert; nearly 90% of these semi-nomads subsisted on traditional agriculture; the other 10% raised livestock,’ Jillian Kestler-D’Amours wrote in 2012. ‘During the 1948-49 war, some 85% of the Negev Bedouin were expelled from their lands and went to the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan and Egypt. By the early 1950s, only 19 of the original 95 Bedouin tribes remained.’ In our October issue, Aïda Delpuech reports on the use of tree-planting to displace Palestinian Bedouins and seize their land. ‘Each time they kick a Bedouin family off its land, they come and plant trees,’ says one lawyer Delpuech interviews.

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