JORDAN VALLEY, December 7, 2016 (WAFA) – The Israeli military government ordered Palestinian residents of Ras al-Ahmar locality in the northern Jordan Valley not to build power lines in their area, said a local official.

Mu‘taz Bsharat, who monitors settlement activities in that area, told WAFA Israeli troops handed locals an order to stop the construction of a 600-meter-long power line along the road leading to Ras al-Ahmar.

Residents of that area considered part of Area C, which is under full Israeli military control, are not allowed to build power lines or water pipes to their villages. They say Israel wants to push them out of their land to eventually take it over for the construction of Jewish-only settlements.

The Jordan Valley makes up about one third of the total area of the occupied West Bank.

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