Photo: Jordan Valley Solidarity
Dear friends,
We have stood strong against the multitude of attacks on our communities by Israeli occupation forces for many, many years now. When they demolish houses, we will rebuild them. When they deny us access to water and electricity, we find a way to survive without them. When they harass our children and our communities we stand together. When they confiscate our land, we resist.
But now we need to double our efforts and we need all our friends internationally to stand beside us.
We are appealing to everyone around the world who’s visited us in the Jordan Valley, met us when we’ve been in Europe and followed what’s happening in our campaign, to understand the urgency of our situation now and to take a least one action.
Israel has made no secret of its plans to annex the Jordan Valley since illegally occupying the West Bank by military force in 1967. They have slowly taken the most fertile land, expanded the settlements and marginalised Palestinian communities.
But now, the efforts to completely remove us from our historic land have escalated. Trump’s deal, announced in January, gives US approval to Israel’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley.
In September 2019 Netanyahu announced that he would annex the Jordan Valley immediately after the elections of 2 March 2020. Then, on 14th January, Naftali Bennett announced seven new ‘nature reserves’ and the expansion of 12 others. He didn’t disguise the clear intention of using this move to steal Palestinian land and hand it over to Israeli settlements. The plan involves confiscation of vast areas of Palestinian land throughout the whole of the Jordan Valley. Then, on the dawn of the announcement of Trump’s plan, the Israeli military moved into the Jordan Valley in force.
Stand with us and take action now. 
You could:    
  • Write to your elected representative or your government.
    Ask them to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop the annexation of the Jordan Valley     and to pressure the US embassy to end its support for the annexation plans.
  • Come to Palestine and volunteer with Jordan Valley Solidarity
  • Make a donation – we are going to be very busy and we need resources to pay for the basics like transport, phones, and internet
  • Hold an information event in your town or city
  • Take action that will target any of the corporations that are complicit in the Israeli occupations’ colonisation and attacks on the Jordan Valley.
     For example JCB, Caterpillar, Volvo and Hyundai (the companies who manufacture the bulldozers used in home demolitions) or Mehadrin, Hadiklaim, Galilee, Arava and Mor (agricultural export companies that are profiting from the theft of Palestinian land)
  • Check out our website, follow us on Facebook and share our news