No Ground to Stand On

btselem

Ajoutée par btselem le 11 mai 2011

Dispossession & Exploitation: Israel's policy in the Jordan Valley & northern Dead Sea

To the interactive report:
http://www.btselem.org/Campaigns/2011_Jordan_Valley/Hebrew/

for more info :
for more info :

http://www.btselem.org/Campaigns/2011_Jordan_Valley/English/index.html

http://www.btselem.org/english/publications/summaries/201105_dispossession_an...
The Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area contains the largest land reserves in the West Bank. The area covers 1.6 million dunams, which constitute 28.8 percent of the West Bank. Sixty-five thousand Palestinians, live in 29 communities, and an estimated additional 15,000 Palestinians reside in dozens of small Beduin communities. Some 9,400 settlers live in the 37 settlements (including seven outposts) in the area.

Israel has instituted in this area a regime that intensively exploits its resources, to an extent greater than elsewhere in the West Bank, and which demonstrates its intention: de facto annexation of the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area to the State of Israel.