OUJA, JORDAN VALLEY, Thursday, February 21, 2019 (WAFA) – Shepherds herding their sheep in the Ouja area of the Israeli-occupied Jordan Valley were chased out of the open pastures by Israeli forces for no apparent reason, according to a local source.
Aref Daraghmeh, a rights activist, told WAFA that soldiers forced the shepherds, who were accompanied in their herding by solidarity members, out of the pastures and prevented them from herding in that area.
He said that soldiers’ harassment of shepherds has become a daily occurrence in the Jordan Valley, which Israel is trying to empty of its Palestinian residents while increasing its Israeli settler population.
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