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Extremist settlers raze farmlands in Jordan Valley
Israeli settlers on Friday keep razing Palestinian farmlands in Khirbet al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley, according to local sources.
Local sources said that the settlers razed more than 10 bulldozers into al-Farisiya, where the heavy machineries have been for over a week leveling large tract of farmlands back to the farmers as a prelude to seize them and set up settlement agricultural projects.
This happened many days after the settlers set up mobile houses and escorted a bulldozer to level a plot of land close to a formerly-installed water tank.
The Jordan Valley, which is a fertile area of land running west along the Jordan River, is home to around 65,000 Palestinians and makes up approximately 30% of the West Bank.
Since 1967, when the Israeli forces occupied the West Bank, Israel has transferred more than 11,000 of its Jewish citizens to the Jordan Valley. Some of the Israeli settlements in which they live were built almost entirely on private Palestinian land.
