“I don’t think annexation will affect us in any way. “We have no tension with the Israelis,” he said. “This is a peaceful town,” said Khalil Nawawra, 35, who also works in Tomer, tending to the crops of eggplants, peppers, grapes and date palms. Anything constructed beyond the limits, residents said, is demolished by the Israelis. The Palestinian Authority has paved the roads, run the school and clinic, and granted building permits for houses within village limits set by Israel. Netanyahu insisted on maintaining a long-term Israeli military presence along the Jordanian border to prevent infiltrations and weapons smuggling from the east.īut some in his Likud party said there could be no security without Jewish settlements there, and argued that Israel should annex the area permanently.Īs it is, life in the scattered villages has long been suspended between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.įasayil sits in Area C, the large part of the West Bank technically under full Israeli control. During 2014 peace talks orchestrated by Secretary of State John Kerry, Mr. The valley has been a sticking point in past Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. The Palestinians have long viewed the fertile Jordan Valley, which makes up some 30 percent of the West Bank, as the breadbasket of a future state. A small enclave would remain under Palestinian self-rule, including the oasis city of Jericho and the village of Ouja to its north. Netanyahu presented at his news conference denoted future Israeli sovereignty in a long stretch of the Jordan Valley, from Beit Shean in northern Israel to the shores of the Dead Sea.
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