The Israeli army forced on Tuesday 16 Palestinian families to leave their homes in the village of Khirbet Humsa al-Fouqa in the Northern Jordan Valley under the pretext of upcomig military drills.
According to human rights activist Aref Daraghmeh 16 Palestinian families were forced to leave their homes at six in the morning and will not be allowed back before the Israeli army wraps up its war games in the area.
Human rights groups say the army uses the guise of military exercises in the Jordan Valley in order to force Palestinian families to leave the area as part of an ethnic cleansing policy.
The army has ordered families in the Jordan Valley to leave their homes for military drills dozens of times in the past few years.
