- RAMALLAH: The Israeli authorities on Monday decided to expel three Palestinian families from the West Bank’s Jordan Valley.
Aref Daraghmeh, the head of Wadi Al-Malih village council, said that the Israeli authorities handed the expulsion orders to the families of Mahdi Mohammed Al-Amer, Abed Awad Daraghmeh and Fawzi Abed Daraghmeh in Khirbet Samra, northern Jordan Valley, within three days.
According to Daraghmeh, the Israeli authorities warned the families that their homes would be demolished after three days.
He added that the new orders came a day after the Israeli authorities handed expulsion orders to Palestinians in the Jordan Valley.
The official said that the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands “aims at confiscating these lands for the expansion of Jewish settlements in the area.”
In a separate development, a Jewish occupier hit a Palestinian schoolgirl with his car in Tarma area, south of Hebron.
Palestinian sources said the 10-year-old student was moderately wounded and transferred to hospital in Hebron.
An Israeli ambulance had arrived at the scene but refused to evacuate the girl since she was not in a critical condition. The Palestinians sent an ambulance to carry the girl to the hospital.

