Military training continues near Palestinian communities in northern Jordan Valley
21 December 2021
On Tuesday, 21 December 2021, at 9:00 A.M., military forces again arrived in the northern Jordan Valley to train near Palestinian communities, following the military training and the evacuations of the families that began on 5 December 2021. The forces trained near Khirbet ‘Atuf, Khirbet Um al-Jamal, Khirbet al-Malih, Kardalah, and the a-Shakh area of al-Farisiya. The soldiers roamed among residents’ homes and near their farmland. Armored forces also trained in the area, firing tank shells near the village of al-Farisiyah. The tanks drove through cultivated fields and damaged dozens of dunams of wheat and barley crops. Troops began leaving the area on Thursday, 23 December 2021.
Residents of the area where the training took place could not go out to graze their flock for fear of being harmed.