Palestinians Jordan Valley: today it is quiet, tomorrow the Hadidyacommunity will lose there homes
There’s heavier traffic than usual on Highway 5. Many military vehicles. Apparently as a result of the murder in Barkan.
Military jeeps parked at a number of locations on the way down to the Jordan Valley.
An ordinary hot day. Shepherds graze their flocks along the roadside. Everything’s very dry; the flocks have no reason to be pleased it isn’t raining. Fodder must be purchased at times like this. With money that’s in very short supply.
A military vehicle parked at the Hemdat junction, waiting for something.
My car is filled with goods for three families. I distribute as needed. The children ask for a soccer ball and bicycles. They gladly accept everything else. Morning coffee with one family, tea with a second, a conversation at the home of a third including a guest of theirs, a Palestinian Israeli who also visits them to help as he can. The conversation makes obvious the growing fears of Israeli Ara bs about Israel’s nationalistic policy. “Allah yustor” – may God help us.
But today is quiet. They’ll wait until tomorrow to come disrupt life in Hadidya. Today they still know nothing.
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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