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Update during Corona: Jordan Valley
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Jordan Valley
Observers: Sharon Gamzo’s phone report from the Palestinian Jordan Valley
March 23, 2020
The Palestinian Jordan Valley: “The most moral army in the world” continues to differentiate between Palestinians and Israeli. S H A M E !!
Late afternoon on Monday, March 23, 2020, we received news that a military bulldozer was blocking the access path to the shepherd community of Al Farisiya in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley (opposite the settler-colony of Rotem). It piled dirt to block the only entrance and exit to the main road. Thus, any access to shopping, doctor’s care etc. is barred for the inhabitants of the community. Dozens of children, women, men, and elderly people live there.
A complaint has been lodged with the Jericho DCO, as well as with Attorney Eitay Mack, human rights activist.
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.
Nurit PopperDec-16-2027Nurit is threatened by settlers from close range.
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