• Violation: Halt of Work notice.
• Location: Beit Dajan village / Nablus governorate.
• Date: May 5^th 2013.
• Perpetrators: The Israeli Occupation Civil Administration.
• Victims: Citizen Najm Salman Abdul Rahman Hunaini.

Description:

Sunday morning May 5^th 2013, about 7:00 a massive army force accompanied by the building and organization officer raided Beit Dajan East Nablus, and served a halt of work military order to Najm Hunaini on his house in Al-Mujeez location,  Reportedly, the notice targets an under construction house with a total area of 200 m².

Najm Salman (65) told LRC the following:

“Sunday morning, I went to my under construction house after I saw two Israeli military vehicles heading to the location, and when I got there I found an Israeli military notice hanged on the door.

I headed immediately to the village council, which guided my to prepare a legal file, and file an objection through Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center.”

Noteworthy, the house Is located to the west of the village in C area , on a 5 dunums plot planted with olives ,. Hanini built the house to provide an appropriate home for his family of 7 people.

About Beit Dajan:[1]

Beit Dajan is located 12 km to the east of Nablus; its total area is 44100 dunums including 360 dunums of built up area inhabited by 758 pople (207 census) in addition to 12500 dunums that are related to al-Ghoor area . A large part of the village lands were confiscated for the construction of the colony of Mehola in 1973.

Beit Dajan is surrounded by a number of villages namely (Salem, Deir al-Hatab, Talluza, Beit Furik, Ghoor el-Far'a ) and depends on grains plantation and fruitful trees such like olive, figs and almond.

In 1971 , Al-Humra settlement was constructed on 123 dunums confiscated from Beit Dajan, while the settlement controls 3855 dunums for security claims, and inhabited by 126 settlers (2013).

[1] GIS-LRC

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