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Poverty drives Palestinian children to work in Israel's agricultural settlement industry

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Wed, 03/21/2012 - 16:03
Deep poverty and a poor educational system have pushed 500 to 1,000 children to work in the illegal Israeli agricultural settlements in the Jordan Valley. They work for a very low wage under harsh conditions.

Thousands of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley risk forced displacement, says UN body

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 16:46
Sixty thousand Palestinians live under harsh conditions in the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea area - one of the most isolated and restricted areas in occupied Palestine. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that thousands of Palestinians in the area risk forced displacement.

"Now it's all gone": Women cope with siege in Jordan Valley

Nora Barrows-Friedman
24 June 2011
Israeli military forces have demolished 27 houses in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank over the last two weeks, rendering more than 140 Palestinians homeless. The state of siege in the Jordan Valley has particularly impacted women.
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