2023-01-30
Halt of work notice for Residential and Agricultural Facilities in Deir Ballut town / Salfit Governorate
Violation: Halt of work and Construction notice.
Location: Deir Ballut town / Salfit Governorate.
Date: January 30th 2023.
Perpetrator: The Israeli Civil Administration.
Victims: A number of families from the town.
Description:
As part of the occupation’s arbitrary policy against Palestinian Land and Housing rights , Monday January 30th 2023 , the building inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration raided the western part of Deir Ballut town , targeting An-Nathr and Al-Latin areas, and targeted a number of residential and agricultural facilities belongs to families from the village with halt of work notices on the pretext of building without a license in area “C”.
According to the notices, the occupation sat February 22nd 2023 , as the date of the building and organization session in Beit El military court to decide the fate of the structures.
This is the second time , the occupation targets this location , in January 2nd 2023 , the occupation targeted 13 residential and agricultural facilities, in addition to the main dump site at the area.
The following table shows more information about the targeted facilities and the owners:
The affected citizen | Family members | Military notice number | The targeted facility | Photo | ||
males | females | children | ||||
‘Amer Yousif ‘Abdullah | 3 | 4 | 2 | 502062 | Under construction house / two floors (200 m2) | 1 |
Mahmoud Mustafa ‘Abdullah | 2 | 2 | 2 | 502063 | Two floors house (250 m2) | 2 |
Nadi ‘Aref Joudeh | 4 | 2 | 3 | 502064 | Two floors house – 200 m2 + cement wall | 3 |
Rashad Mohammed Joudeh | 1 | 1 | 0 | 502065 | Under construction house 150 m2 / inhabited | 4 |
‘Adel Yousif ‘Abdullah | 3 | 4 | 1 | 502071 | Room of bricks and zinc 50 m2 / used as a warehouse | 5 |
Yousif ‘Adel ‘Abdullah | 1 | 1 | 0 | 502072 | Room of bricks and zinc / 40 m2 used as a warehouse | 6 |
‘Alaa Mahmoud ‘Abdullah | 4 | 2 | 3 | 502074 | Room of baton floor , woods , and a 45 m2 wall | 7 |
Zahran Yousef Musa | 2 | 5 | 4 | 502075 | Inhabited house / one floor 130 m2 | 8 |
Ihab Hashem Jodeh | 3 | 6 | 2 | 502076 | Under construction house / two floors and a basement (300 m2) | 9 |
502077 | Cattle breeding shack with a total area of 500 m2 of bricks and zinc | 10 | ||||
‘Abdullah Sa’id Iftaih | 3 | 2 | 1 | 502078 | Under construction house / one floor 130 m2 | 11 |
total | 26 | 29 | 18 | |||
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People who live in Deir Ballut suffer from small construction areas , which pushed tens of families to build in area “C” as classified in Oslo accords which is under full Israeli Administrative and military control , most houses and facilities received halt of work notices and are threatened of demolition.
Citizen Yehia Mustafa head of Deir Ballut municipality told LRC:
“number of Halt of work notices in Deir Ballut town , according to the municipal council records increased to 95 structures since 2000 to this day , the occupation also targeted water reservoirs . Noteworthy, the built-up area is only 743.5 dunums out of 18,000 dunums.”
About Deir Ballut:
24 km west Salfit, Deir Ballut is surrounded by Rafat village (north), The green line – occupied territories of 1948 (west), Kafr Ad-Deek village (east), Al-Lubban Al-Gharbi village (south).
- Deir Ballut is populated 3,870 people in 2017 census. The town’s people are from several families, namely: Tufaha, Khair, Abdullah, Qassim, Qaroush, Mesha’l, Mustafa, Musa and Hadrous.
- Deir Ballut has a total area of 11,339 dunums , of which 503 dunums are a built up area.
- Deir Ballut is popular with rain-fed agriculture such as (Armenian cucumber, Ladies fingers, garlic and others), in addition to olives and wheat.
- Deir Ballut contains a water spring in Wadi Al-Ein area, and the town’s people depend on the National Israeli water company, in addition to rain water harvest cisterns for daily use water.
Oslo accords classified the town’s lands as the following:
– B area: 689 dunums.
– C area: 10,710 dunums.
