2024-05-16 Time: 22:31:28 (Jerusalem)
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation and in accordance with the Israeli Allon plan, Israel has been taking over Jordan Valley lands through the implementation of the policy of dispossession of the Palestinians , 20% of the West Bank land is declared as closed military areas or firing zones, and the majority of that is in the Jordan Valley, Morethan 100,000 dunums in the Jordan Valley have been allocated for settler agriculture use. 95% of the Jordan Valley is Area C according to the Oslo interim agreement. And finally, most of Israeli declared nature reserves are located in the Jordan Valley and along the west coast of the Dead Sea.
Israeli settlers have been transferred to live in occupied State of Palestine in violation of international law and the 4th of Geneva Convention. The total number of illegal settlers living in the occupied State of Palestine exceeded 670,000 settler, Of those more than 12,700 settlers are living in small illegal settlements in the Jordan Valley and control 95% of the area of the Jordan Valley, While approximately 55,000 Palestinians in the Jordan Valley are confined to only 5% of the land, where Palestinians are deprived from using Palestinian land and resources.
The annexation plan announced by Netanyahu in September 2019 includes a blueprint for annexing 22.3% of the West Bank with 30 illegal settlements and 18 illegal settlement outposts.
The Trump's Peace to Prosperity Vision supports the annexation of the Jordan Valley as was presented in the conceptual map attached that is consistent with the Israeli annexation plans. The illegal settlement construction in general has escalated since 2017 when Trump came into office and the graph below shows the increase in construction in the Jordan Valley in particular.
Update on settlement construction in 2019:
In 2019, construction started in 110 settlement housing units.
In 2019, 4 new illegal outposts were established in the Jordan Valley.
