While Israel professes to have frozen settlement building, a highly dubious claim, it has continued its policy of subsidizing settlement businesses and agriculture, even employing Palestinians as cheap labor around the West Bank, in this case, the Jordan Valley in which Israel has developed 22 settlement communities..

The above video makes clear that Israel’s colonization of the Palestinian territories is continuing full force.

The full story by al Jezeera(English).

In conjunction with settlement building in the Jordan Valley, over the past 42 years since Israel took military occupation of the Jordan Valley, the Palestinian population has decreased from around 300,000 to its present 52,000, through various methods of ethnic cleansing, including economic strangulation, especially restriction of access to water need to grow crops.