Tag: Jordan Valley
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Israel’s tightening grip on the Jordan Valley
International Solidarity Movement 7 May 2010 “Israel will never cede the Jordan Valley” Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2010 The Jordan Valley is an area under urgent threat of annexation, and during the last few weeks Israel has considerably tightened its grip on the indigenous Palestinian population. On the 11th of April the Israeli military shut of…
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Two Little Girls: Murder in the Jordan Valley
International Solidarity Movement 5 May 2010 We stopped by the roadside at the spot where the two little girls had been killed. Their blood still stained the cushion on which they had been sitting, fragments of the military jeep which had rammed their father’s tractor still littered the ground. Janaa Fakha (8), her sister Maasa…
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Jordan Valley may be hurdle in peace talks
Howard Schneider | The Washington Post 2 November 2009 The backhoes are busy on housing plots for this new Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, and young families, under army guard and toting M-16s, have begun cultivating dozens of acres of land with dates, olives and other crops. To the south, a water pipeline from…