2022-05-25
Demolition of a number of commercial stands in the northern Jordan Valley / Tubas Governorate
• Violation: the demolition of a number of commercial stands.
• Location: the northern Jordan Valley.
• Date of violation: 25/05/2022.
The aggressor party: The Jordan Valley Settlements Council, under the protection of the army.
The affected party: four Palestinian families.
• Details of the violation:
The Israeli occupation continues to restrict the lives of citizens in the Palestinian Jordan Valley areas in various aspects of life, to the extent that citizens are now threatened with persecution by the settlers and the occupation army, and their natural rights to live in security on the land they inherited from father to grandfather, The so-called Council of settlements in the Jordan Valley, for the third time in a row since the beginning of this year, began targeting four commercial stands located on both sides of the bypass road known as Road No. “90” near the village of Ain al-Bayda in the northern Jordan Valley, at noon on Wednesday May 25/ 2022, The occupation army, on instructions from the settlers, embarked on a campaign to demolish and confiscate the contents of four commercial stands used to sell vegetables and fruits that were located there on both sides of the bypass road No. 90. The settlers used special trucks to transport the confiscated vegetables, while the value of the losses amounted to approximately 1,200 shekels for each seller.
The following are the names of the owners of the demolished stands and information about them:
The affected citizen’s name
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Number of family members
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Children
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The nature of the notified facility
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Male
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Female
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Ghassan Mahmoud Ahmed Fiqha
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3
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2
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3
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A stand for selling vegetables of jute and wood 12 m2
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Faris Abdullah Abdul Rahman Sawafta
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2
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1
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1
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A stand for selling vegetables of jute and wood 12 m2
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Nidal Ahmed Abdel Rahman Sawafta
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4
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5
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3
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A stand for selling vegetables of jute and wood 12 m2
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Shady Nabil Aref Fiqha
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3
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1
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2
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A stand for selling vegetables of jute and wood 12 m2
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Total
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12
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9
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9
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shows the stands after the demolition
It is noteworthy that the occupation, through the Israeli Settlement Council, had previously for the same families did confiscate and demolish four agricultural stands in the same site, on the date of (13/3/2022), this was preceded by another demolition of the same families at the end of last February.
This is considered an indication of giving a greater role to the settlement councils in the West Bank to exercise their role in displacing the population and imposing facts on the ground. This paves the way for the imposition of Israeli law in the West Bank, and it also paves the way for a change in the features of the region, to be a prelude to seizing vast areas of land there, and turning the population into strangers within their land, which has always embraced them for many years. This perpetuates the policy of racial discrimination in a country that claims democracy while it practices terrorism in organized ways under the eyes of the international community, which does not move a finger to curb these escalating attacks against the
