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August 30th, 2015 
Awake Goy Days of Palestine, West Bank –Israeli forces evicted on Sunday 14 Palestinian families in Jordan Valley in order to carry out military drills.
The 14 Palestinian families are exactly located in Al-Ras Al-Ahmar neighbourhood of Khirbet Attuf, the city of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank.
Evicted Palestinians said that the “Israeli occupation” told them that Israeli forces will be carrying out military drills in the area for five days.
During the five days of drills, Palestinian residents in the area will be far from their houses for six hours per day.
Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley are regularly forced to leave their houses under the pretext of protecting them during Israeli army’s military drills.
Earlier this year military drills in Tubas resulted in a fire that swept across some 3,000 to 4,000 dunams (750 to 1,000 acres) of Jordan Valley farmland.
The majority of the Jordan Valley is under full Israeli military control, despite being within the West Bank. The district of Tubas is one of the occupied West Bank’s most important agricultural centres.
According to the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem, more than 15,000 dunams (3,700 acres)of land in Tubas district have been confiscated by the Israeli occupation for military bases with a further 8,000 dunams (2,000 acres) seized for illegal Israeli settlement.
Source Article from http://www.daysofpalestine.com/news/occupation-evicts-palestinians-military-drills/
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