From Maan News agency
Bethlehem – Ma'an – Four days after an Israeli minister threatened to restrict the West Bank's water supply, Israeli authorities closed off the main water source used for agriculture in a Jordan Valley village on Sunday, committee members and lawyers said.
The Bardalah village's farmers could stand to lose not only profit, but the land's viability, and have protested the decision.
Fathi Ikdeirat, campaign coordinator for Save the Jordan Valley said "the decision threatens to destroy tens of thousands of agricultural farmlands, greenhouses, citrus and palm trees, particularly as its the season for vegetable harvesting and when fruits bloom."
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