TUBAS, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 (WAFA) - Hundreds of dunums of agricultural and pastoral lands in the northern Jordan Valley were set ablaze as a result of military drills conducted tonight by the Israeli occupation army.

Mutaz Bsharat, who monitors settlement activity in the Tubas district, said that the Israeli army held military drills in the area, setting fire to hundreds of dunums of land.

He noted that nearly two hundred dunums of agricultural land and more than 1600 dunums of pastoral land in the northern Jordan Valley were set on fire.

Israeli army conducts military training in areas inhabited by Palestinian Bedouins on a regular bases forcing many to leave their homes for a few days each time.

Rights groups said that the military drills are intended to drive Palestinians out of their homes and out of the occupied Jordan Valley as a whole, which Israel hopes to one day annex and house it with Jewish settlers.

According to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, Israeli military training in the Jordan Valley “cause unreasonable disruption to the lives of the communities in the area.”

T.R.