Violation: Halt of Work notice for an agricultural facility.

Location: Khirbet Yarza - Tubas Governorate.

Violation date: 02/05/2022.

The perpetrator: the so-called Israeli Civil Administration.

Victims: farmer Faisal Muhammad Daraghmeh.

Description:

On Monday, 2/5/2022, the so-called construction inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration raided Khirbet Yarza in Tubas governorate, and posted a military order to stop work in a tin cattle barn with an area of 120 m² on the pretext of building without a license.

The occupation sat 19/5/2022 as the date of the building and organization session in “Beit El” military court, to discuss the fate of the structure.

It is worth noting that the notice does not specify features of the targetes site, the date of issuance, the name of the village or the site where the barn is located and the signatures of the person who delivered it!!! This indicates the extent of the contempt of the occupation for the Palestinians who build on their land that they had inherited from generation to generation.

The target cattle tin barn is owned by farmer Faisal Muhammad Daraghmeh, 56 years old, who is the breadwinner for a family of 7 members, including 2 children, and 4 females.

The affected farmer told LRC's field researcher the following:

"I was surprised three days ago when I found a notice lying next to a stone on the ground that was obviously affected by the learn , and I learned through the official authority in the governorate of Tubas that this notice is related to the tin barn whose I got built eight years ago to house my sheep cattle totaling 72 heads. During the last rainy season I got some repairs carried on it".   

During the current year, the occupation authorities have demolished three houses in the village and issued notices against a number of others, while the occupation turned most of its lands into a military training zone, which exacerbated the deteriorating conditions in the village and deprived its citizens of their most basic human rights.

A glimpse on Khirbet Yarza:[1]

Khirbet Yarza, located 10 km east of Tubas Governorate, specifically in the Baqi’a Plain region, is inhabited by about 12 families (100 citizens) who are remnants of their original inhabitants previously lived there in hundreds, and taking care of their lands which amounted to 25 thousand dunums, including, 283 dunums, classified under the name “root of the hamlet”, meaning an old inhabited area. It is indicated that 75% of Yarza lands have been registered in the Land Registry records since the Jordanian era, in the name of the Palestinian inhabitants who own the land, but as a result of the occupation’s continuous oppression and racist practices many people were forced to leave to other adjacent places or to the town of Tubas.