New building in Mehola settlement

For the last few days Mehola settlement, in the Northern Jordan Valley, has been building new houses.

Mehola is located at the junction between the ‘Road 90’ and ‘Alon Road’, made to isolate the Jordan Valley from the rest of the West Bank.

Mehola was the first settlement established in the Jordan Valley, in 1968. Today, the children of Mehola founders continue to build. Some of them build inside Mehola, others, build in an outpost just beside Mehola that, if legalized by the Israeli government, could become a part of Mehola, creating a very large colony. The northern Jordan Valley is now occupied by four major settlements (Mehola, Rotem, Maskkiyot and Shdemot Mehola) plus Mehola outpost.

Each one of these settlements builds new houses and expend on a regular basis in order to develop a large single colony that would control the all area.

The Palestinian communities that are now surrounded by all those colonies, struggle on an everyday basis to stay on their land, as they face house demolitions, denial of access to water, education and health.