It charged that Israel plans to take over land exposed by the receding Dead Sea and effectively cut off the possibility of a contiguous PA state comprising Samaria and the Jordan Valley. The PA said that 35,000 acres of land, two percent of all of Judea and Samaria is involved.
PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the proposed annexation of land is intended “to kill the chance of creating a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity.” He said the PA will ask the United Nations Security Council and the World Court to intervene if the World Bank does not accede to its demand to halt funding for the project. Arutz Sheva
