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July 11, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=185480&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=185480

Palestinian-Bedouin Tensions in Jordan

(Ha'aretz) - As many as 2,000 Palestinians are waiting in Jericho for permission to cross into Jordan; the Jordanians allow in only 150 per day. Since the outbreak of the al-Aqsa intifada, 26,000 Palestinians have moved to Jordan. "Jordanian Bedouin regard the Jordanian Palestinians as usurpers who took the country away from them," said a university researcher of Bedouin origin.

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