‘Destroying agriculture is the purpose’: How Israel is drying up the West Bank’s most fertile farmlands

Israeli military vehicles on Palestinian agricultural land in the Jordan valley, near the West Bank town of Tubas, May 6, 2015. (Photo: Shadi Hatem/APA Images)For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as farmers tell Mondoweiss “there is no tomorrow” for them.

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