Yair Bni Menashe Carmel Packing House
The settlement of Mehola is situated in the Northern Jordan Valley. It is comprised of a gated, fenced residential settlement and an agricultural area. The agricultural area is close to the Palestinian village of Ein al Beida and Palestinian workers, including child workers, work in the fields and packing houses. Workers are paid from 60-80 shekels per day, half the Israeli minimum wage, and have no contracts or health insurance. There have been documented incidents of employers in Mehola falsifying wage slips in order to appear to be paying proper wages.
Mehola has an area of 5000 dunums and a population of 351 people. It falls within the Bik’At HaYarden Regional Council of settlements. It was established, in 1967, on Palestinian land from the Tubas region.
A large proportion of the produce in Mehola is maketed as ‘organic’ for the export market. The two largest companies in the agricultural zone are Arava and Carmel Agrexco. Individual settlers appear to have their own ‘organic’ plots and export through one of these companies.
The residential part of Mehola, behind a barbed wire fence, contains housing, animal pens and a swimming pool.
Organic Sign in Mehola
Hishtil Nurseries
Transamerica leasing shipping crate
Yekutiel Ehud Packing House
Herbs in Mehola
Dor Chaya Arava Export Packing House
Halpert Moshe Packing House
Carmel Packing House in Mehola
Oved Rachel Carmel Packing House
Sivan Meir Arava Packing House
Ladani Yair Agrexco Packing House
Carmel Packing House - Mehola
Halpert Moshe Carmel Packing House
Dor Yedidya Arava Packing House
Houses in Mehola residential areaHouses in Mehola
Surrounded by a fence
Swimming Pool inside Mehola
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Reasons to be cheerful(ish): the boycott as seen from the occupied Jordan Valley « Corporate Watch – Tracking Corporate Complicity in the Occupation of Palestine · 24th April 2010 at 1:16 pm
[…] amount of workers that the settlers want each day from the surrounding Palestinian communities) for Mehola, one of the biggest settlements exporting to Europe through Agrexco and Arava, told me that the […]
Reasons to be cheerful(ish): the boycott as seen from the occupied Jordan Valley · 2nd May 2010 at 12:35 pm
[…] amount of workers that the settlers want each day from the surrounding Palestinian communities) for Mehola, one of the biggest settlements exporting to Europe through Agrexco and Arava, told me that the […]