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ammunition left by the IDF: a 17-year-old was fatally injured and died

Place: Jordan Valley
Observers: Telephone Report by Rina Tzur (Telephone Report) Translation: Bracha Ben-Avraham
Jul-22-2017
| Morning

On Saturday, July 22nd a 17-year-old high school student named Udai Nuaza from the village of Ibziq in the Jordan Valley went to tend his family’s flock in a hilly area near the village. He was fatally injured and after playing with live ammunition that the IDF left behind following a training exercise, and then died of his wounds

 

 

This is not the first such incident.  Each year shepherds, most of whom are teenagers, are killed or seriously injured in similar incidents..

The army frequently conducts training exercises in the Jordan Valley and leaves behind live unexploded ammunition from tanks and artillery that is lethally dangerous to anyone who touches it.  Why doesn’t the IDF allot a budget and manpower to collect this hazardous ammunition?  The amount of unexploded shells left behind is constantly increasing, and are hazardous – particularly to young Palestinian shepherds who do not understand the danger.   If they posed a danger to settlers, the army would doubtless make an effort to remove them.  The nearby settlements to not have herds of sheep.   There are two herds in illegal settlements, and perhaps they will see to the task of removing the explosives.      

 

 

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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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