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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					12/12/2010 &#8211; 11:04 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">CAIRO, (PIC)&#8211; The Arab League&#8217;s  Palestine and occupied Arab land sector released a report documenting  the rise in restrictions Israel has placed on Palestinian residents of  the Jordan Valley in what it called an attempt to pressure the locals  before seizing the entire region.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Israeli authorities have taken a series of  actions to boost restrictions on the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley,  as a prelude to ejecting Arab locals and taking hold of the land after  isolating it from the surrounding West Bank areas.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report noted a sharp rise in home  demolitions in recent months against Palestinians throughout the valley,  with Israeli occupation forces not only leveling the village of Abu  Al-Ajaj in the north last month before expanding the Jewish Mitswah  settlement which was founded there, but they also distributed to  villagers military decisions to rip down their homes and exile them.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Arab League similarly mentioned that a  fleet of Israeli military equipment raided the northern Jordan Valley  village of Yarza near Tubas, flattening eight structures and one mosque.  Troops later handed out demolition warnings against a number of  Palestinian homes. Israel has mapped the region as a closed military  zone used for training soldiers and has required that the locals abandon  the land in favor of Jewish farming settlements in the region.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">According to the report, Israeli  authorities have deliberately depleted the ground water in the valley in  order to force citizens out, and have tightened the siege on them by  posting military blockades on all paths leading to the area and isolated  thousands of acres of farmland, a policy that has deprived locals of  optimal usage of their land and fields.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In separate incidents, Israeli troops  handed out military demolition notices issued against a number of homes  belonging to Palestinians in Jerusalem&#8217;s Silwan district.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Crews from Israel&#8217;s Jerusalem municipality  aided by police hounds handed out notifications to level several  structures belonging to Palestinians in Silwan&#8217;s Thawri neighborhood for  allegedly being built without permits and not complying with the  municipality&#8217;s laws and regulations.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The team remained in the neighborhood after handing out the notices.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat made a surprise  visit two days back in Silwan to meet with the president of a Jewish  association there ahead of touring the settlement outposts erected in  the Wadi Halwa neighborhood.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7Yl3jshthTo%2fzQ7sGfjer8GquiWeKUVo%2bbpHcqenZG%2bHApVfxyuosy9z39R2QTekNpN1rqxL2SbGz31upFZBJqbHirTnwUfRt1yf0Zp%2f6EXQ%3d">AL: Israel trying to eject Palestinians from Jordan Valley to take over region</a>.</p>
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