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Israel’s arbitrary persecutions have all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing
In the last part of a four-part series MARY ADOSSIDES visits the Jordan Valley and Nazareth where she witnesses further evidence of the inhumanity of Israel’s apartheid system

Day 9: Jordan Valley. In 1967, 320,000 Palestinians lived in the Jordan Valley and 10,000 Palestinians worked in Israeli settlements. The valley was a breadbasket and its produce was exported, mainly to the Arab world.

There are nine Palestinian villages inhabited by farmers, some Bedouin villages and 13 schools.

Now Israelis control the land and its resources and they use different strategies to harass Palestinians, including laying mines which have caused fatalities.

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