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Jordan Valley
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Jordan Valley
Observers: Hagar Geffen, reporting and photography Translation: Naomi Halsted
07:00–12:30
Milk is being sold at home this season – unpasteurized milk. Purchasers come in the morning and boil the milk in their own homes.
The herd wanders lazily below the western slopes of the Rotem settlement on the edge of Wadi Malih, which gets water from the Tubas region.
Today’s escorting was unusual with regard to the paucity of food and the route taken, which was not decided in advance by the herdsman and not determined by conditions on the ground.
We moved around the area. We decided to leave earlier than usual, with the herdsman’s consent.
And we found another kind of home.
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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