Jordan Valley: Family visit during Ramadan
A visit to families, kindergarten, and Ramadan
The Ramadan month is almost at its mid-point. All day people wait for the longed-for
7:14 p.m. in order to get a drink of water…
The Girls at the Hadidiya kindergarten are happy to mix Kor’an phrases with secular games. They recite several first verses running, count to 19 in English and Arabic, write letters and the beginning of words, and draw. They have 6 booklets learning several subjects: family, environment, language, arithmetic. Today they learned about the senses.
At the end of the day. we paid a Ramadan visit. Traditionally, brothers visit their sisters. The brothers from Makhoul bought juice and cookies at the grocery and drove to visit a sister living at Marj Al Na’aja – along road 90, north of Jiftlik village. Lots of palm trees, on the eastern side of the road. Even inside the village, among the houses. Date palms. We sat in a real house, built up with walls and air conditioning. Rather exciting for those who live in a tent. We returned for the Ramadan festive meal at Makhoul. Holiday greetings…
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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