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Hundreds of protested on Thursday against Israeli police attacks on their village thatÌýtook place over the past week.

Bedouin Palestinians from the village of Abu Talul, which is in the Ìý(Negev)Ìýdesert in southern Ìýchanted slogans against police raids and assaults onÌýresidentsÌýincluding women and children, among other violent measures.

Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the Palestinian Bedouin community has faced state policies of dispossession, displacement, and home demolitions.

More than half of the 160,000 Bedouins in Israel's Negev desert live in villages not recognised by the state, leaving them without water, electricity, and other basic infrastructure.

Israeli authorities have consistently drawn criticism for allegedly failing to tackle intra-Palestinian violence within Israel's 1948 boundaries. Palestinian citizens of Israel are often at odds with the Israeli police, an institution they believe is doing little to stop the gun crime epidemic within their community.

Gun violence in the indigenous Palestinian communityÌýin Israel accounts for overÌýÌýof all murder victims nationwideÌýdespiteÌýmaking up just over 20 percent of the population.ÌýThere are more than 400,000 illegal weapons among Palestinian citizens of Israel, who number just overÌýtwo million.

A study conducted earlier this year for the Israeli parliament found that male Palestinian citizens ofÌýIsrael were than their Jewish counterparts.