tracteur.redWe, 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.

We call all local and international organizations to support Palestinian existence in the Jordan Valley, which is facing one of its most critical situations since the occupation in 1967. We call for any kind of pressure to stop the violations of Palestinian rights in the Occupied Territories. We also call on the Palestinian Authority to make all the possible efforts to make the occupation costly by applying the Palestinian law that prohibits all economic relations with the settlements, including working in settlements, purchasing palm trees and other products and cooperating with the settlement waste disposal industry.