Two weeks after their fragile tin shacks were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers, Atiya Bani Minna and his family are still sleeping under the stars, struggling to resume some semblance of **rmal life. For this 50-year-old
Bedouin shepherd, it is the third time that he and his extended family have had their homes levelled as the Israeli army steps up the pace of demolitions in the
Jordan Valley. "We have become used to it, it's **t a problem to sleep in the open." It is an increasingly common story in this sparsely populated strip of West Bank land which borders
Jordan and whose fate has become a major point of dispute between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in the US-led peace talks. Like many other
Bedouin communities in the
Jordan Valley, Khirbet Ain Karzaliya has ** electricity and is **t connected to the water network, with the families relying on a small nearby spring for their flocks.
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