Jordan Valley: the dogs bark and the convoy passes…
We accompanied the shepherd youths, cousins, along with M. – A.’s father – after they requested close accompaniment following the arrest of the two shepherd boys five days ago, as we reported on Friday, January 31, 2020. The accompaniment itself was peaceful.
On our way we saw a water pipe coming out of the settler-colony of Maskiyot and climbing up to the new illegal outpost south of the colony.
Back at the encampment, we were welcomed by the children who had already come home from school.
We drove out to settler-colony Ro’I, to see the state of the gates on the way to the Al Hadidiya community. The gate was locked again, which forces the children on their way home from school to walk a long way instead of riding the school minibus all the way home.
Attached is the answer to my letter to the legal adviser about the locked gates. I called the DCO again to complain about this and was told that they would look into it. As usual – the dogs bark and the convoy passes…
Jordan Valley
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Jordan Valley The Jordan Valley is the eastern strip of the West Bank. Its area consists of almost a third of the West Bank area. About 10,000 settlers live there, about 65,000 Palestinian residents in the villages and towns. In addition, about 15,000 are scattered in small shepherd communities. These communities are living in severe distress because of two types of harassment: the military declaring some of their living areas, as fire zones, evicting them for long hours from their residence to the scorching heat of the summer and the bitter cold of the winter. The other type is abuse by rioters who cling to the grazing areas of the shepherd communities, and the declared fire areas (without being deported). The many groundwaters in the Jordan Valley belong to Mekorot and are not available to Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley. The Palestinians bring water to their needs in high-cost followers.
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