Banu Saqr

The Banu Saqr or Al Sqour is a Bedouin tribe formerly concentrated in the Beisan Valley of Palestine from c. 1700 until the 1948 Palestine war and now resident in modern Jordan. Throughout the 18th century, they were the strongest of the Bedouin tribes of northern Palestine and were in frequent conflict with the strongmen of the region, first the tax farmer Daher al-Umar (1730–1775) and then the governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (1775–1804). Their conflict stemmed from these leaders' efforts to stem the tribe's raiding of the region's villages and roads.