Netanyahu plans to annex Jordan Valley

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to extend Israeli sovereignty over a third of the occupied West Bank if he wins reelection


Around 65,000 Palestinians and 11,000 Israeli settlers live in Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area

Move would leave Palestinian city of Jericho cut off from rest of West Bank, home to 2.7m Palestinians


Territory Netanyahu plans to annex

Jenin
Tulkarm
Qalqilya
Nablus
WEST BANK
Ramallah
Jerusalem
Jericho
ISRAEL
Bethlehem
Hebron
DEAD SEA
JORDAN

10km 6 miles


Pre-1967 ceasefire line
West Bank barrier
Planned barrier
Israeli military and civil control
Israeli settlements/ municipal boundary
Israeli settlements
Israeli military base
Palestinian civil control
Built-up Palestinian area


Mediterranean Sea
EGYPT 
ISRAEL
JORDAN
WEST BANK
SYRIA
LEBANON

80km 50 miles


Sources: B’Tselem, UNOCHA
Picture: Associated Press
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