Among the tens of thousands of Arab refugees who fled to the Jordan Valley and remained there, are many Bedouin tribes who have lost their grazing lands as well as most of their herds. Today they eke out a miserable existence on half rations from UNRWA (Relief and Works Agency).
A Bedouin refugee school-master from Beersheba who collects around him the children of his tribe in the open desert East of Jericho. They have no classroom and few books or writing materials, but the parents of the children make great efforts to scrape together the few piasters necessary to send them to school. [1953]