Jordan Valley

Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date, however, came and went and annexation was never actualized.
“I don’t know if there will be a declaration of sovereignty today,” said Israeli Foreign Minister, Gabi Ashkenazi, with reference to the self-imposed deadline declared earlier by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. An alternative date was not immediately announced.

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Backed by a US-subsidized Israeli Defense Force, armed Israeli settlers continue to wage a campaign of violence and ethnic cleansing against the native Palestinian population (Image Source: Palestine Chronicle via via Solidarity Project)
Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving quickly to alter the political reality in Palestine, and facing little or no resistance. 

Ma’an – March 22, 2017 TUBAS – Israeli forces on Wednesday morning detained a young Palestinian man in the village of Ibziq in the northern Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank and confiscated a tractor and a private vehicle in the area. Muataz Bisharat, an official who monitors settlement activity in the Jordan […]

Ma’an – August 30, 2015 TUBAS – Israeli troops on Sunday morning evacuated 14 Palestinian families from their houses in the al-Ras al-Ahmar area of Khirbet Atuf village east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley area of the West Bank, local sources said. Local sources reported that the “Israeli occupation” told the 14 families […]

International Solidarity Movement | January 20, 2014

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