(Must see - 7 min. clip) Farming Without Water: - 91% of the fertile Jordan Valley is now off limits to Palestinian farmers due to settlements and closures by the Israeli military. Palestinian Agriculture is heavily affected by chronic shortages and the water-grabbing of illegal settlements. “Sometimes we have no drinking water, we cannot cook or do our house work,” says farmer and householder Anwar Ismail. We have no water for our animals, it hampers our existence in this area,” she says, “It even makes us think of leaving.” Punished for collecting rainwater: - Israel bans Palestinians from digging new wells, repairing old ones, or even setting up cisterns to collect rainwater. As a result, area farmers must buy expensive water that has to be trucked in. Those who - driven by necessity - build rainwater collection systems without virtually impossible to obtain Israeli permits, and must often watch as the occupation forces demolish them. Jordan Valley farmer Muhammad Ebsharat says his home was demolished 16 times by Israelis attempting to force him off his land.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:48:59 +0000
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