Due to the Arab-Israeli conflict, as well as many years of water withdrawal for domestic and agricultural needs, the water level in the holy Jordan River has dropped significantly. He writes about this on August 18 Associated Press (AP)
“The lower reaches of the Jordan River today are rather very poor than mighty. Its receding water appears to be a sluggish, dull brownish green hue.
It is clarified that the river, in which, according to the Bible, Jesus was baptized, became shallow due to a number of factors. One of them is the Arab-Israeli conflict.
“It is definitely a victim of the conflict. It’s a sacrifice of the people because that’s what we humans have done to the river, basically, and now, adding to all that, it’s a victim of climate change,” the Jordanian director of EcoPeace Middle East, which unites Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists.
As an example, the author of the article cites a section of the river, which was a hostile border between the once warring Israel and Jordan. It is also noted that the river waters separate Jordan on its eastern bank from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
In addition, environmentalists have insisted for years that the lower Jordan, which flows south of the Sea of Galilee, is under particular threat due to decades of agricultural and domestic water withdrawals and pollution. .
The conflict between Palestine and Israel escalated in early May 2021. Riots and protests were provoked by the fact that the Israeli authorities began to evict Arab families in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict as part of the Arab-Israeli confrontation began in the middle of the last century and continues to this day. Currently, the Palestinians, as part of a suspended peace process with Israel, are demanding that the future borders between the two sovereign states follow the lines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War, with a possible exchange of territories.
They hope to create their own state on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip, and they want to make East Jerusalem their capital. Israel refuses to return to the 1967 borders and divide Jerusalem.
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