2020-08-05

Halt of work notices on houses and facilities in Ni’lin town / West Ramallah

Israeli violations in the time of Corona:

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Violation: Halt of work notices.

Location: Ni’lin town / Ramallah governorate.

Date: August 5th 2020.

Perpetrators: The Israeli Occupation Civil Administration.

Victims: 6 families from the town.

Description:

The Israeli Occupation forces accompanied by a vehicle from the building and organization department in the civil administration raided Ni’lin west Ramallah, and delivered several halt of work notices on structures , on the pretext of building without licenses.

The Occupation set September 6th , as the date of the subcommittee session in Beit El military court to decide the fate of the targeted structure.

The following table shows more information about owners of the targeted facilities:

Affected citizen

Family member

Children under 18

Notice number

The targeted facility

Photo No.

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Mohammed Dar Hamdiya

8

3

30370

Stores used as a sawmill (550 m2)

1


Mahmoud Srour

6

4

30365

2 stores house , the first one is stores and the second one is a 320 m2 apartment

2


Mohammed Daqqa

7

2

30366

Shack used in breeding pigeon 120 m2

3


Yousif Srour

7

4

30368

Plot under reclamation (dunums and a half)

4

No structure

Heirs of Al-Habazi



30369

Ancient house built in 1904 with a total area of 90m2

5+6



Mohammed Al-‘Absi

4

2

30367

Agricultural room built of bricks (60 m2)

7


total

32

15





Source: First hand field observation – Israeli violations monitoring section- Land Research Center , August 2020.

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Ni’lin village suffers from a heavy wave of military notices, during the recent years, the Israeli occupation authorities targeted more than 35 residential, industrial and agricultural structures, and many of them were demolished on the pretext of building without licenses.

About Ni’lin:[1]

20 km to the northwest of Ramallah, Ni’lin is edged by the towns of Qibya and Budrus from the north, Al-Midyah town from the southwest, Deir Qidees town from the east and Mod’in and Kiryat Sefer colonies from the south.

Ni’lin is inhabited by 5897 people on a total land area of 15,206 dunums , of which 748 dunums are the village’s built-up area.

The occupation confiscated a total of 3020 dunums for colonial ends, which are detailed as follows:

  • Hashmona’im colony: it was established in 1985 on confiscated area of 858 dunums from the village. It is now inhabited by 2097 colonists.

  • Kiryat Sefer: it was established in 1991 on confiscated area of 476 dunums from the village. It is now inhabited by 24,290 colonists.

  • Mattityahu colony: it was established in 1980 on confiscated area of 657 dunums from the village. It is now inhabited by 1365 colonists.

  • Colonial bypass road number 446confiscated 408 dunums

  • The apartheid wallconfiscated 621 dunums for the favor of its construction and isolated 14,083 behind it.

According to Oslo Accords lands classifications, Ni’lin lands are classified as follows:

  • 1,123 dunums are classified as area “B”

  • 14,083 dunums are classified as area “C”




[1] GIS-LRC

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