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Arab MK slams 'ethnic cleansing' after demolitions in W. Bank
By Yoav Stern and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent

After Israel demolished structures in at least five Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley in the last week, Hadash Chairman Mohammed Barakeh called on Thursday for an end to what he termed the "ethnic cleansing" in the area.

Pools, tents and tin structures built without permits and belonging to Palestinian residents, were destroyed in the villages of Bakia, Jeftlik, Beit Dajan and Bardella, which are scattered along the Jordan Valley.

Barakeh said that the demolitions prevent the residents from providing for themselves through working the land and raising livestock. The information was received by the Hadash chairman from the residents - who also turned to Amnesty International - and was verified by Haaretz.

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Barakeh also said that residents from the villages of Hedidia and Humsa in the southern Jordan Valley were expelled on the alleged grounds that they were residing on army territory.

In a letter he sent on Thursday morning to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Barakeh wrote that the Palestinian residents in the area live under a "wild siege" and in "absolute isolation" from the rest of the West Bank, in what he called an attempt by Israel to strengthen the Jewish settlements in the area.

Barakeh demanded the government order the IDF to stop its activities against the residents and to "remove its hand from over the residents of the Jordan Valley."
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