Violation: Issuing halt of work and demolition order.

Location : Khallet An-Nahla – Wad Rahal / Bethlehem governorate.

Date:19/02/2018.

Perpetrator: The Israeli occupation civil administration.

Victims: Sana’  Sa’ad.

Description:

Israeli civil administration crew protected by an army force raided Wad Rahal village in 6^th of February 2018, and served a halt of work (construction) order to citizen Sana’  Sa’ad on her house, on the pretext of building without proper licenses in C area.

The military order said that the subcommittee session will be held in Beit El military court in 19/02/2018, to decide the fate of the structures, the family quickly carried on preparing the legal file in order to defend their property in the court session.

At the session date in 19^th February, the occupation army invaded the village another time , and served another military order to Sana’a giving her 30 days to demolish her house, and return the plot to its previous status. The occupation authorities did not even give Sana’ and her family a chance to defend their home, and did not commit to a court session as they mentioned in the military order.

The following table shows more information about the property:

 halt of work order

 demolition order

the notified house

Sana’ told LRC reporter:

“The occupation’s intention is to expel us from our property, this is the only home my family and I have, and we have been building it for years, we’ve put everything we had in this house, once we finished the construction, the occupation troops sent us the military order.

 we wanted to live in our house no matter what was the price, we moved into it before it was even suitable for living.”

Wad Rahal have been a hot spot for Israeli assaults, the occupation authorities’ intention is to take over the area for the favor of colonial expansion.

About Wad Rahal:[1]

12 km south Bethlehem city, Rahal is bordered by Irtas (north), Wadi Al –Nes “Efrat settlement” (west), Janatah and Hindaza (east) and “Al-Ma’asara (south).

Wad Rahal is populated (1819) people in 2017 census.

The town has a total area of 4,131 dunums, 173 dunums are the town’s built up area.

The bypass road (1,235 m) devoured under its route about (123) dunums and blocked (142) dunums.

Oslo accords divided the town as the following:

• B area (1,710) dunums.
• C area (2,421) dunums.

[1] GIS- LRC

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