Violation: halt of work military order on an agricultural cistern.

Location: Ash-Shamaliya – Jaba’a village / Bethlehem governorate.

Perpetrators: The Israeli occupation civil administration.

Victims: family of No’aman Hamdan.

Description:

The Israeli occupation forces and settlers raided Al-Jaba’a village and served a halt of work military order No’aman Hamdan on his cistern on the pretext of working before getting proper licenses.

Hamdan told LRC reporter:

“while we were digging a cistern in my land , the Israeli occupation forces raided the area and confiscated the excavator , when asked on the reason they told me to go to “Etzion” police station . The excavator’s owner went there , but they refused to give him his property back before I show up, and when I did they served me   a halt of work military order”

The military order said that 30 January  2019, will be the date of the subcommittee session in “Beit El” to decide the fate of the cistern.

Noteworthy, Hamdan inherited 51 dunums of land from his grandfather cultivated with olives and almonds.

Halt of work order

the targeted cistern

About Al-Jaba’a:[1]

It is located 25 km to the northwest of Hebron city. It is edged by the villages of Nahhalin and Wadi Fukin in Bethlehem from the north, Surif in Hebron from the south and the armistice line from the west.

The village has a total area of 7968 dunums, of which 153 dunums are built-up area, where 1121 people live (2017 census).

The Israeli colony of Tsoref confiscated around 468 dunums from the village's lands, it was established in 1989 and is inhabited by 767 colonists.

The bypass road number 367 confiscated more than 514 dunums, where the annexation and isolation wall destroyed 340 dunums under its construction.

According to Oslo Accords lands classifications, Al-Jab'a lands are classified as follows:

300 dunums ( 4%) are classified as area "B", which is under Palestinian Authority control

7655 dunums (96 %)are classified as area "C", Which is under full Israeli Authority control

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[1] GIS-LRC