AMMAN
— The
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has published two papers stating
that Israel has weaponized food to compel Palestinians to abandon their
legitimate rights, according to Middle East Monitor.
اضافة اعلان
The
papers were prepared by the
Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) and outline
the nature, degree, and impact of Israeli violence on Jordanian and Palestinian
food systems.
The
paper details tactics adopted by the Israeli occupation to use food as a weapon
on
Palestinians to make them dependent on Israel for sustenance. These tactics
include "systematically uprooting trees, preventing Palestinians from
accessing their lands, and then illegally confiscating fallow lands, in
addition to routinely poisoning Palestinian water and soil".
Violating
Jordan’s agricultural land, water resourcesWith
regard to the situation in Jordan, the APN paper described an Israeli agenda to
damage the Kingdom’s agricultural sector by setting fire to land in the Jordan
Valley, which is the center of national food sovereignty.
The
plan also includes expanding Israel's "hydro-hegemony over Jordan's
water resources through different strategies such as over-pumping and diverting
excess water for development projects as well as polluting the southern part of
the river with agricultural waste".
These
actions, according to the APN, "had a detrimental impact on Jordan's water
resources, which is the second water-scarce country in the world in terms of
annual water intake per capita".
Read more National news
Jordan News
.jpg)
.jpg)
