Jordan Valley
Visiting families, accompanying shepherds, milking and other tasks. 23.1.
Live auditory testimony. 6.2.
The workday starts with milking before dawn, continues with cheese-making, baking bread, pasture, feeding, pasture again, childcare, laundry, cooking – until dark. And this is on good, sunny days when no settlers invade with their flocks, and only the army performs its maneuvers on fields in which the new wheat is growing.
Auditory testimony on 6.2.2019: A large military exercise took place in the northern valley. It included tanks, quantities of troops, and all sorts of weapons. Explosions could be heard throughout the day. Families had to leave their homes in several villages, and about 218 men, women, and children, with their herds and cattle, were made to leave the area and stay at a distance, next to the Taiseer checkpoint, from 10 am till 5 pm, and to let the soldiers do all they wish. I heard the explosions from afar, on the telephone. There were tanks all over the place, and the whole area turned into a horror movie.
Next week, too, on 14.2.2019, the same shameful event is about to occur at the same hours. The people will be removed from their homes, all over again.
And what about us? What had we done when we knew?
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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