Update on new Settlement Packing House in the Jordan Valley

Last week Corporate Watch revisited the building site for a new packing house on the land of the Arovot HaYarden Regional Council close to Massua settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley. Workers at the site confirmed that the building will be a new date refrigeration house for Jordan Plains. Jordan Plains is a company exporting through Carmel Agrexco.
The construction of the new packing house, on illegally occupied territory, suggests that Agrexco and Jordan Plains intend to extend their export capacity for dates. Palestinians in the area are unable to build any permanent structures at all due to military restrictions, let alone one on this scale.

see http://corporateoccupation.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/pictures-of-carmel-agrexcos-new-packing-house-in-the-jordan-valley/ for our previous report.

A third Carmel/Jordan Plains packing house next to the others