APN | Amman

February 2023

 

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food published two papers prepared by APN on its website detailing the nature, degree, and impact of Zionist violence on the Jordanian and Palestinian food systems.

In the report on the Palestinian situation, APN described the different tactics employed by the occupation to weaponize food, creating food dependency and forcing Palestinians to forgo their rights. These tactics include systematically uprooting trees, preventing Palestinians from accessing their lands, and then illegally confiscating fallow lands, in addition to routinely poisoning Palestinian water and soil.

As for the Jordanian case study, APN’s report exposed Israel’s complex scheme to damage the country's agricultural sector by deliberately setting agricultural lands in the Jordan Valley on fire, destroying the cornerstone of national food sovereignty. Additionally, Israel continues to expand its hydro-hegemony over Jordan’s water resources through different strategies such as over-pumping and diverting excess water for development projects as well as polluting the southern part of the river with agricultural waste. These violations had a detrimental impact on Jordan’s water resources, which is the second water-scarce country in the world in terms of annual water intake per capita.

Finally, the reports demand stricter accountability measures to hold Israel responsible for its systematic attacks on the Palestinian and Jordanian food systems, and to force Israel to compensate affected farmers for the damages and losses caused by these attacks.

To read APN’s contributions go to: https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-input-violence-and-right-food