JORDAN VALLEY, August 16, 2018 (WAFA) – Israel intends to turn a military camp in the occupied northern Jordan Valley into a settlement, human rights activist Aref Daraghme said on Thursday.

He said, based on information from Israeli human rights groups, that Israel intends to place 30 settler families at the location of Rosh Habqiaa military camp in the northern Jordan Valley.

He said this step is usually a prelude to turning the entire camp into a settlement.

The area is known as Shwaiar and it was the location of a Jordanian military camp since the 1950s and late taken by the Israeli military after its occupation of the West Bank in June 1967.

M.K.