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Confisctaion of the tractor in the Jordan Valley. Photo by ‘Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem, 15 Mar. 2022
On 15 March 2022, while Mufdi Sawaftah was spraying fields for landowners on a tractor near the community of al-Burj, northeast of Hamamat al-Malih, Jordan Valley Settlement regional council employees arrived and summoned soldiers to the scene. The soldiers confiscated the tractor on the pretext that it had entered a firing zone and led it to a military camp west of Khirbet Samrah. The soldiers detained Sawaftah for about half an hour, claiming he had stayed in a firing zone although it was cultivated farmland and he was employed by its owners.