In an attempt to steal Palestinian land, Jewish settlers on Tuesday set up a tent and fenced off dozens of dunums of land in the Jordan Valley, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
#Israeli Authorities to Seize Plot of #Land near #Salfit https://t.co/Htrsu4vqYp via @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/YIchLP2zTS
— @palestinechron (@PalestineChron) July 13, 2020
Mahdi Daraghme, head of al-Maleh village council, told WAFA that over the past two days, Jewish settlers set up a tent and placed a fence around the Palestinian land in the villages of Bayoud and Umm Kharoubeh, located in the northern Jordan Valley.
The settlers, he explained, have grabbed thousands of dunums of herding land in the Jordan Valley in order to prevent shepherds from reaching them and eventually take over the land.
Israel is planning yet another annexation of Palestinian land, this time of the strategically important Jordan Valley.
But Palestinian farmers have worked this land for thousands of years and they won’t leave without a fight.
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The Jordan Valley covers an area of about 1.6 million dunams (1,600 km2) and constitutes around 30 percent of the total occupied West Bank. According to a previous government report, the Valley includes about 280,000 dunams of arable land, 50,000 of which are still used by Palestinians and 27,000 by illegal Jewish settlers.
The majority of the Jordan Valley is under full Israeli military control, despite being within the West Bank. Meanwhile, at least 44 percent of the total land in the Jordan Valley has been reappropriated by Israeli forces for military purposes and training exercises.
(Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Social Media)
We must not allow Israel to steal the Jordan valley which is next to Jordan and if the Israelis are allowed to steal it, it means the Palestinians will be cantonized within an area with only Israel control long their borders. It will be worse than it is now. Their freedom will be more restricted, and they will lose the most fertile part of their country. The Israelis always want to steal the best bits and shame on us British for allowing them to get away with their crimes.