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Escorting Shepherds in the Jordan Valley (February 20-26, 2022)

Place: Jordan Valley
Tags: Accompanying Palestinian shepherds in the Jordan Valley Settler-colonists deny Palestinians access to their own grazing grounds
Observers: Escorting Shepherds in the Jordan Valley (February 20-26, 2022) Hagar Gefen with members of the Pasture Coalition Translation: Naomi Halsted The symbol of the week’s escorting was the tumbleweed (Gundelia tournefortii), which guides the flocks in the pa
Feb-20-2022
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Accompanying shepherds in the Jordan Valley: Collecting an edible plant
Accompanying shepherds in the Jordan Valley: Collecting an edible plant
Photo: Hagar Gefen
Jordan Valley: Accompanying a Palestinian herd near an illegal lookout
Jordan Valley: Accompanying a Palestinian herd near an illegal lookout
Photo: Hagar Gefen

The symbol of the week’s escorting was the tumbleweed (Gundelia tournefortii), which guides the flocks in the pasture, and the shepherd who is busy gathering it (see photo).

It was a “quiet” week with the noticeable persistent presence of flocks belonging to the settlers grazing close by the Palestinians’ flocks, and with cattle turned loose by the settlers to nibble at the fields sown and cultivated by other shepherds.

All of this, amid the growing presence of internal tourism to an illegal lookout structure built by a settler from down below. Evidently, with all the visitors’ cars coming to the area around the lookout, the settler did not carry out his routine abuse this time.

 

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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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