In a special investigative report, Quds News examined the impact of an expanding Israeli military project in the Palestinian Jordan Valley, one of the West Bank’s most fertile agricultural regions, where land is not merely farmland but a foundational pillar of the local economy and a source of income for hundreds of families.
The report — part of an ongoing series documenting the human cost of Israeli military and settlement policy in the Jordan Valley — details how new military infrastructure and access restrictions are progressively severing Palestinian farmers from land they have cultivated for generations. Residents interviewed describe mounting difficulty simply reaching their fields, citing new checkpoints, patrol routes, and closures introduced under the pretext of military necessity, but which coincide closely with adjacent settlement and outpost expansion in the same areas.
The piece situates this specific initiative within a broader, long-documented pattern in the Jordan Valley, where Israeli authorities have designated large swaths of land as closed military zones or nature reserves, restricting Palestinian agricultural and residential use while these same designations have, in numerous documented cases, later given way to settlement expansion. Palestinian agricultural unions and rights monitors have long warned that this dynamic — creeping military and administrative control preceding land conversion — represents a deliberate strategy to displace Palestinian communities from the valley through attrition rather than direct expulsion.
