2020-03-29
A removal notice on saplings in Al-Maso’udiya / Barqa – Nablus governorate
Israeli violations in the time of Corona
Violation : A removal notice on forest saplings.
Location: Al-Maso’udiya / Barqa – Nablus governorate.
Date: March 29th 2020.
Perpetrator: The Israeli Occupation Forces.
Victims: People of the village.
Description:
Sunday , March 29th 2020 about 8:00 , The Israeli Occupation forces raided Al-Maso’udiya in Burqa north Nablus, and served a notice to remove forest saplings planted on road sides.
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Deputy-chairman of Burqa village council Jihad Daghlas told LRC: “we to the location after the occupation forces had left, and found the military notice hanged on one of the targeted saplings, the notice ordered to remove the saplings.”
Jihad asserted, about one year and a half Burqa village council planted about 100 forest saplings on the sides of a road in Al-Masoudiya , but the occupation authorities are now targeting them.
Noteworthy , “Al-Masou’diya site has a history that goes back to the 1914, the family of Al-Maso’ud donated a plot with an area of 38 dunums to build a railroad that connected Haifa to Jordan then to Saudi Arabia.
In the eve of 1967 war, the area was turned into a military barracks for five years, the occupation forces also dismantled the railway but the station remained the same, while the occupation authorities are prohibiting any rehabilitation works.
About Burqa:[1]
12 km north Nablus city, Burqa is surrounded by the Israeli illegal colony “Homesh” (north), Ramin and Al-Masa’adeyeh villages (west) , Beit Amrin (east) and Sabastiya (south).
Burqa has a population of (4152) people in 2017.
Burqa has a total space of 18174 dunums, 506 of them are the town’s built-up area.
The Israeli occupation confiscated (1047) dunums from Burqa’s lands to establish “Homesh” settlement in 1980, the Israeli government claim that “Homesh” is evicted but that is not the truth,the settlement is inhabited by radical settlers who implemented several attacks against villagers of Burqa.
Oslo conventions divided Burqa into:
- A area: (4796) dunums.
- B area: (5131) dunums.
- C area : (8247) dunums.
[1] GIS-LRC
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