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The Occupation Demolished a Residential Building in Al-Bireh city / Ramallah governorate
Violation: Demolition of four apartments.
Location: Satih Murhuba – Al-Bireh city / Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate.
Date: February 14th 2022.
Perpetrators: The building inspector at the Israeli civil administration.
Victims: Citizen Sameer Flaifel.
Description:
The Israeli Occupation Forces protected by the Occupation army and the building inspector at the Israeli Civil administration raided Sateh Murhuba area at 6:00 am in February 14th 2020 north of Al-Bireh city , and demolished an under construction house belongs to citizen Saed Flaifel, on the pretext of building without a license. The Occupation bulldozers leveled the building to the ground.
Affected citizen Saed Flaifel told LRC the following:
“One year ago , I built a house for my family in area classified C in Oslo accords , the house is unfortunately 300 m away from a plot on which the occupation illegally built Kokhav Ya’coub colony, that’ why they want to demolish the house , to grant “security” for Israeli illegal colonists as they claim.”
The following table shows more information about the violation at the location:
Affected citizen
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Family members
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children
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Females
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Area m2
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Notice number
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About the violation
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Saed Flaifel
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4
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2
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1
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480
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61792
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Demolition of two floors that consists of four apartments
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The Owner told LRC the following:
“I received a halt of work notice, and started preparing a legal file , the occupation delayed response to the license application until they showed up with a military order , my loss amounted to 150 thousands dollars noting that the structure is still under construction.”
During the past few years, the occupation increased assaults in Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, and Jabal At-Taweel and Sateh Murhiba area are a part of the targeted area , which carried out mass demolition operations..
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Al-Bireh and Ramallah:[1]
15 km to the north of Jerusalem , (Al-Bireh and Ramallah) is surrounded by Ein Yabrud , Dura Al-Qare’a , Surda Abu Qash (north), Ein Qinya and Betuniya (west), Bitin and Burqa (east) and Kufur ‘Aqab and Rafat (south).
Al-Bireh and Ramallah has a total population of (328,861) people until 2017 census.
Al-Bireh and Ramallah has a total area of 38,164 dunums , of which 14,712 dunums are a built up area.
The Occupation devoured (3357) dunums for the following purposes:
- Israeli settlements devoured (1213) dunums , for:
settlement
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Establishment year
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Area in dunums
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Number of settlers in 2018
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Total area
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Pessegot
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1981
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826
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2,046
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930
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Beit El
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1977
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360
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6,027
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1,183
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Kokhav Yacoub
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1984
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27
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8,910
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2,408
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- Bypass roads 466 and 463 ate up 111 dunums.
- The Annexation and Expansion wall is 1,359 m , ate up 135 dunums and isolated 370 dunums behind it.
- Israeli military camps ate up (1,898) dunums.
Oslo accords divided the town’s lands as the following:
- A area: 19,046 dunums.
- B area: 3,921 dunums.
- C area: 15,197 dunums.
[1] GIS-LRC