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Update during Corona: Palestinians in the Jordan Valley abide by the isolation guidelines
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Jordan Valley
Observers: Daphne submits a report from the West Bank
Two inhabitants of the Palestinian Jordan Valley who returned from Israel are quarantined in an isolated tent, near their family tent. M. organizes someone with a pickup truck to bring the shepherd communities vegetables and fruit and sell them, and take their cheese for sale in the West Bank. Tomorrow he meets with the governor to coordinate this. The PA is investing all its resources in the fight against the Corona virus and will not aid the shepherds financially. I offered him our help with money, but that would get to him only after closure is lifted.
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 PopperJul-7-2025Olive trees, many of them ancient, are dumped along the road to the Ma'ale Levona settlement
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