Wednesday, July 6, 2011

JVS rejects Israel's plan to double the settlement area in the Jordan Valley

"We, the Jordan Valley Solidarity Campaign, reject the Occupation Authority’s decision to double the size of the agricultural colonies in the Jordan Valley. This expansion means the colonies will consume more water, which is already scarce and entirely absent in some Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley. The expansion will mean more suffering for the Palestinian people and more limitations on access to their land. These new developments come while the Palestinians of the Jordan Valley are facing the ongoing aggression of the Israeli occupation, whose main aim is to expel them from their land."
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