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Rebuilt Houses in the Al Jiflik Area

In the last few years the Jordan Valley Solidarity project has rebuilt or renovated over a hundred houses in the valley. Palestinians living in area C are prevented from building permanent structures by the Israeli Civil Military administration. These regulations are enforced by house demolitions.

Bedouin of the Jordan Valley: Here to stay

JV Bedouin Conference Feb 2010 (7)JV Bedouin Conference Feb 2010 (7)Bedouin communities from all over the Jordan Valley met together on 9th February 2010. They developed a plan of the support and infrastructure they need to resist Israel's ethnic cleansing and stay on their land.

Robert Fisk: In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying

In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes.
Robert Fisk reports from Jiftlik Saturday, 30 January 2010

See original article in the Independent

The Abu Najeh Family

Along the recently laid road that links the Zoba community to the main road and a stone’s throw from Al-Hamra checkpoint are a few small tent-houses and one single building made from rocks and mud. Jordan Valley Solidarity is working to renovate two of the homes here in order to house some of the families that live in the scorching tents. We sat on the floor in the largest of the tent buildings with the matriarch of the community whilst the men drifted in and out, occasionally chipping in with some information but mainly focussing on the building work going on just outside.

Al Jiftlik- Al Moussafah

Al moussafah is one of the communities that form the Jordan Valley village of Al jiftlik. It has a population of roughly 1500 people and the families we visited live on a hillside overlooking the entire Jordan Valley, a small community within a community. Behind them are only the rugged mountains, completely uninhabitable, but the view from their homes is that of the sprawling lush green of the valley all the way across to mountains on the far side of the valley.

The Zoba Community

Today we were taken to visit the Zoba community in the Jordan Valley, a family who have suffered immeasurably since the start of the occupation. The community is located on the top of a small hill, at the West entrance of the Jordan Valley, 3 kilometres west of the Al Jiftlik community and a mere 400 metres from Al Hamra checkpoint. It is also very close to the old Jordan River Bridge which connected the occupied West Bank with the kingdom of Jordan. This bridge was closed by the Israelis in the early 1990’s, further isolating the people of the West Bank.

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