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Update during Corona: Jordan Valley: Every family closes at its mother's door

Place: Jordan Valley
Tags: Updates during Corona
Observers: Daphne Banai submits a telephone report
Mar-24-2020
| Afternoon

Phone report from the Palestinian Jordan Valley

I Spoke with Y. and B. two heads of families in Khalat Makhoul.

The situation there is dire. They cannot drive to either urban or rural centers. Tyassir now has a checkpoint placed by the Palestinian Authority which they are not allowed to cross. The shepherd communities eat flatbread which they make themselves, sheep and goat cheeses and eggs. No vegetables or fruit. Fear of the Corona virus is great, and the families are not communicating with each other. Every family is closed in its own area. 

They are still receiving water and going out to graze every day.

They miss the Israeli activists very much, but ask – even demand – that we do not come out to them at this time.

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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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