On Monday 12th May 2025 Dr Alice Panepinto (QUB School of Law), Bana Abu Zuluf (Maynooth University) and Dr Brendan C Browne (Trinity College Dublin) launched a new book titled 'Ending impunity for international law violations: Palestinian Bedouins and the risk of forced displacement', co-edited also by Dr Ahmad Amara, Dr Triestino Mariniello and Dr Munir Nuseibeh.

This edited collection is one of the core academic outputs of the AHRC-funded project "Palestinian Bedouin at risk of forced displacement: IHL vulnerabilities, ICC possibilities" (Ref: AH/T007540/1) which ran between 2020-2024. It is the first book-length academic publication on the Palestinian Bedouins at risk of forced displacement in the Central West Bank and Greater Jerusalem area - one of the most vulnerable and yet resilient communities in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967.

The volume shines a light on a lesser known but by no means less important aspect of the conflict in Palestine, namely, how Palestinian Bedouin communities are targeted in a number of ways by the Israeli State and settlers in an attempt to force them off their land. 

At its core are two questions: firstly; what are the humanitarian vulnerabilities these Palestinian Bedouin communities face and how are they produced/constructed? And secondly, how does protracted impunity for international law violations drive humanitarian protection risks for them? It interweaves international law, community-based empirical research and interdisciplinary perspectives, to offer the broadest possible framework for understanding these complex and complicated questions.  

For this work, the collaboration between interdisciplinary scholars at Al Quds University (Jerusalem), Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin and Liverpool John Moores University, and a core project team of desk-based and field researchers in Palestine, is complemented by contributions by an eclectic mix of Palestinian and non-Palestinian authors drawing on various aspects of law, urban planning, humanitarian and development practice, politics, international affairs, and more. The work is grounded in law-in-context approaches to understanding injustice in Palestine, borrowing theories and methods from a wide range of social sciences.

Taken individually, the eight chapters shine a light on different aspects of the humanitarian vulnerabilities (and their context) in Bedouin communities, through a range of thematic, geographic and disciplinary angles and dimensions. Taken together, the suite of chapters offers the first comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the humanitarian vulnerabilities of Palestinian Bedouins at risk of forced displacement. 

To access the book in open access format, please follow this link: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/ending-impunity-for-international-law-violations-palestinian-bedo

To watch the trailer of the accompanying documentary film, supported by AHRC follow-on funding (AH/W006782/1), please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_9v65iR88E

Dr Alice Panepinto

School of Law

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