MPs check on Beersheba bedouin communities

AMMAN — Members of the Lower House’s Palestine Committee on Thursday checked on several bedouin communities whose origins go back to Beersheba in Negev, Palestine, but now reside in the southern governorates of the Kingdom.

Chair of the panel, Yahya Saud, listened to the community leaders’ complaints and asked them to form a committee representing all of the tribes to visit Parliament, where meetings with lawmakers and concerned ministers will be arranged for them to further discuss solutions to their problems.

The Beersheba tribes took refuge in Jordan after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and many of them obtained nationality and became a component of Jordanian society.