Israeli forces and the Israeli Civil
Administration cut the water supply to 2,600 of Palestinians living in
communities in Bardala village in the Jordan Valley, northern occupied
West Bank, yesterday.
Mutaz Bisharat, an official who monitors settlement activity in Tubas/Jordan Valley, told Ma’an that Israeli forces cut off water supply for 60 per cent of residents of the Bardala village; amounting to 2,600 people.
Israeli
forces also cut off water supplies for 1,800-2,000 dunams (445-494
acres) of Palestinian agricultural lands that must be continuously
irrigated.
Bisharat added that Israel
claims that water sources in the area are illegal, adding that this
cannot be true because the water comes from wells in the village and
inside Palestinian lands.
He pointed out that as Israeli forces cut off water supplies for Palestinians, they construct wells for Israeli settlers.
Bisharat
called upon international and humanitarian institutions to immediately
intervene to stop Israeli violations of human rights.
The
Jordan Valley forms a third of the occupied West Bank, with 88 per cent
of its land classified as “Area C” which falls under full Israeli
military control.
Jordan Valley
residents mostly live in enclaves closed off by Israeli military zones,
checkpoints, and more than 30 illegal Israeli settlements............https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190307-israel-cuts-water-supply-to-2600-palestinians-in-jordan-valley/?fbclid=IwAR00xvGecwFGAGX_GpFKDggIh-d1n__J0lowknXqK23LWtnU729vMgZPUbo
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