May 2023: Human rights violations in the Jordan Valley
1st May:
Occupation Forces raided Aqbat Jaber refugee camp in the early morning. 17-year-old Jibril Al-Ladaa was shot by the occupation army, six other Palestinians were wounded, three of them heavily. The IOF then prevented an ambulance from reaching the injured. Before withdrawal, the Israeli forces arrested two young citizens of the camp.
8th May:
Occupation Forces demolished four Palestinian-owned structures in the Jordan Valley. In Al-Auja, two partially built homes, belonging to Muhammad Samih Al-Birawi and his son, were destroyed. In Khirbet Musaffah of Al-Jiftlik, a barn owned by Youssef Salem Aki Kaabneh was demolished. A fodder barrack beloning to Ibrahim Abayat was destroyed in Fasayil Al-Wusta.
10th May:
Seven Demolition Orders were issued to Palestinian families in Ein El-Hilweh and Umm Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley, stating their homes would be destroyed within 96 hours. In Al-Dyouk Al-Tahta village west of Jericho, three houses were demolished.
22nd May:
Representatives of the company Mekorot entered the village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley with the support of occupaton soldiers. They destroyed two water pipelines. This leaves the residents without water supply for their agricultural livelihood as well as for their homes.
On the same day occupation forces informed four Palestinian families from Humsa Al-Fawqa in the northern Jordan Valley that they were fiorcibly being temporarily evicted from their homes the following day, 23rd MMay, then again on 31st May and 13th June. On each day they would be evicted from six in the evening until nine in the morning of the next day so that the Israeli army can conduct military training in the area surrounding their homes. The families, including children, are being forced to remain in the open without shelter.
The IOF evict dozens of Palestinian families anually from their homes in the northern Jordan Valley under the pretext of performing military training close to or in their houses.
25th May:
Occupation Forces stormed Aqbat Jaber refugee camp in Jericho at dawn. All entrances to the camp were closed, imposing a complete siege on Aqbat Jaber and preventing all movement. Extensive raids were conducted in several citizens‘ homes. Eight Palestinians were injured by the occupation army and a number were arrested, amongst them thirteen are known: Omar Nasser Al-Hinnawi; Muhammad Issa Hajjaj; Iyad Hamidat; Muhammad Fawzi Awadat; Ibrahim Youssef Yaghi; Alaa Al-Bitar; Muhammad Fawaz Bilhan; Ramzi Fawaz Bilhan; Fayez Ramzi Bilhan; Ramy Yahya El-Gamal; Zaid Muhammad Raslan; Abraham Al-Alam.
26th May:
Occupation Forces arrested two young men from Tubas, Sedqi Yusef Abu Al-Shayeb and the released prisoner Yasser Masaeed. The director of the Tubas Prisoners‘ Club, Kamal Bani Odeh, reported that the IOF detained them when they were passing through an occupation checkpoint near Jericho.
In Khirbet Sakkot in the northern Jordan Valley, a group of armed settlers chased Palestinian shepherds from the pastures and threatened them with death if they continued to graze their livestock in the area. Israeli settlers plan on establishing the core of a pastoral outpost in Khirbet Sakkot.
It is noteworthy that settlers in the northern Jordan Valley chase and attack Palestinian shepherds on the pastures almost on a daily basis.
27th May:
A group of settlers set up a caravan and a cowshed in the Umm Al-Qaba plain in the northern Jordan Valley. Connecting a 5-kilometre water pipeline to the structures, the settlers are with high probability beginning to establish a new outpost.
31st May:
A group of Israeli settlers attacked the property of the Palestinian citizen Alaa Mohammad Abu Mutawa in Khirbet Al-Deir in the northern Jordan Valley. The settlers set fire to agricultural machines, straw and fodder for his animals.