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Village council: Israel confiscating livestock in Tubas
Published Saturday 11/08/2012 (updated) 12/08/2012 13:59
A view of the Jordan valley.(MaanImages/file)
TUBAS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces have been confiscating livestock from shepherds in the Jordan valley and imposing high fines on owners, a local village council said Saturday.

The village council of al-Maleh and al-Madareb told Ma'an that Israeli forces recently confiscated livestock from shepherds and farmers and imposed a fine of 15,000 NIS for them to be returned.

Adel Eilan said that Israeli forces fined him and his brother and then did not return the full number of confiscated livestock.

Israel is taking livestock and equipment from farmers and shepherds to force them to leave the area, the village council added.

An Israeli police spokesperson did not answer calls seeking comment.

The villages of al-Maleh and al-Madareb lie in an area of Israeli control in the Tubas governorate.

In March, Bedouin village council head Aref Daraghmeh said that Israel's Nature Authority was threatening Palestinian residents with fines of more than 5,000 shekels for picking tumbleweed in the area.
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1 ) gabi / australia
12/08/2012 03:46
Ransoming their livestock. This is new What next? Ransom their children? And a fine for picking tumbleweed? What possible rationale can be behind this? Israel is doing its best to ensure the Palestinian farmers have no ability to live off the land - the only purpose being to take the whole of the land. Ben Gurion promised the Zionists that he would give them all the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan and that promise is getting closer and closer. So much for the "two state solution"
2 ) Rami / Palestine
12/08/2012 12:33
Ransom their children? They already do that. It's called "Administrative detention" and severely high fines for crimes not committed.
3 ) gabi / australia
13/08/2012 03:03
#2 Rami - of course you are correct - I never thought of it that way! And I guess no-one else in the west thinks of it that way either. In fact were it not for a friend who put me on the mailing list for Pnews I wouldn't even know of these stories. Here we are told in our press when Israel announces further expansion settlement building, sometimes, and little else about life under occupation. And we are told when the UN condemns these actions, and does nothing. What's the tumbleweed about?
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