Israel has twice demolished the West Bank village of Al Farasiya in the Jordan Valley. Under the Oslo Accords, all of the Jordan Valley except for Jericho was designated as Area C or an IDF military zone. According to Wikipedia
Israel initially planned to construct an eastern barrier extension as part of the Israeli West Bank barrier, thus separating the Jordan Valley from the rest of the West Bank. Plans were abandoned following international criticism of the route of the barrier as a whole, and the High Court of Justice's decision of June 2004. Instead, a regime of permits and restrictions on the movement of Palestinians has been instituted in the Jordan Valley. B'tselem, an Israeli human rights group states: "These acts have served as a substitute for the construction of a physical barrier, creating a situation in the Jordan Valley almost identical to that of the 'seam zone' between the Israeli West Bank barrier and the Green Line."[1]
The Oslo Accords were supposed to lead to a two-state solution.
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