JORDAN VALLEY, July 24, 2008, (WAFA) - Slamming all the Arab and international calls to freeze illegal settlement activities in the West Bank, Israeli Defense Ministry and IOF Civil Administration decided today to ratify building 20 new houses in the illegally-built Jewish colony 'Miskibout', north Jordan valley.
Palestinian security sources said that the ratification has not been yet made by the Israeli defense minister Euhd Barak.
For a year and a half year
The Palestinian Jordan Valley accounts for more than a quarter of the total area of the West Bank or about 2,400 square kilometers. The illegally-built Jewish colonies occupy 1,200 square kilometers, or 50 percent of the Jordan Valley Israel Jordan Valley Jericho and al-Uja, only 3.5 percent of Jordan Valley
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