Israel has built a new West Bank nature reserve on stolen privately-owned Palestinian land, based south of Jericho. It is the largest Israeli nature reserve established since the 1993 Oslo Accords were signed. The move was condemned by Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for PA President Mahmoud Abbas, following Israel’s expropriation of 22,000 dunums of Palestinian land to build it. Several villages were confiscated, and as a result, which Abu Rudeineh said, is part of the E1 settlement plan that aims to isolate the occupied city of Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied West Bank. Known as the Wadi Og Nature Reserve, the new nature reserve will further prevent Palestinian shepherds from pasturing their flocks in the Umm Zuka […]