Eviction notices for (50) families in the northern Jordan Valley area for (conducting military training) / Tubas governorate

• Violation: Eviction notices for (50) families in the northern Jordan Valley.
• Location: Kherab Al-Burj , Al-Maita, Hamamat Al-Malih , Ar-Ras Al-Ahmar / The northern Jordan Valley area.
• Date: 03/02/2019.
• Perpetrator: The Israeli occupation army.
• Victims: 50 families from the community (311 people).

The Jordan Valley area is considered of great importance in terms of agricultural and economic development to Palestinian community. Right after Israel occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip back in 1967, the successive Israeli Governments worked hard and devoted their full energy and resources to control the Jordan Valley area through several procedures including the building of Israeli settlements, military bases, declaring vast areas of lands in the area as ‘closed military areas’, declaring other areas as nature reserves where no Palestinian building and land utilization was allowed, and the construction of Israeli bypass roads. As a result, most Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley area were targeted with various military orders declaring the confiscation and annexation of their lands in the area for the benefit of Israeli settlements. These procedures have severely affected the development in the area and the lives of Palestinian farmers, land owners and companies living and working there.

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Eviction notices for (50) families in the northern Jordan Valley area:

This year, the military training are conducted in synchronization with sheep reproduction season and winter and summer crops. This is to say that the occupation aims at causing huge damage and losses to strike the Palestinian presence in the area. In 03 – Feb 2018 the occupation issued eviction notices to 50 Palestinian families to conduct military training in their villages. The eviction notices targeted (17) families in Hamamat Al-Malih , (9) families in Khirbet Al-Maiteh , (6) families in Khirbet Al-Burj and (18) families in Ras Al-Ahmar, all of them together are 311 people. The following table shows more information about the eviction orders:

Photos 1-3: damages in the agricultural sector due to military training

It is clear the Israeli occupation intends to conduct military training in random areas of Palestinian Jordan Valley (Al-Ghoor). It is reported that most of the Bedouin communities in the area were targeted with eviction and got affected of such measures. Houses and structures became targets for Israeli bullets and missiles. Not only, a number of the area’s residents got killed and others were injured due to the leftovers of such training.

Photo 4: A road was constructed to serve the Israeli military training in the area