Violation: Demolishing a barn and confiscating a residential room and a mobile bathroom.

Location: Fasayil Al-Wousta village / north Jericho.

Date: March 2^nd 2021.

Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration.

Victims: Citizen Mohammed As-Sawarka.

Description:

Monday, March 2^nd 2021, the Israeli Occupation Forces and Civil Administration raided Fasayil Al-Wousta area north Jericho. The forces demolished a barn, confiscated a residential room with a total area of 24 m² and a mobile bathroom donated by “ACTED”. The targeted structures belong to families of  Mohammed As-Sawarka , they went through demolition of residences and barns once before last March, on the pretext of violating an antiquities site.

The Owner supports a family of 5, 3 of them ae children and depend on cattle breeding as a main source of income.

Photo 1: The location of the room

Photo 2: the ruins of the barn

Affected citizen said:“I’ve been living in Fasayil for more than 19 years , and I depend on cattle breeding as a main source of income for my family, last year the occupation demolished my structures  that were there for more than ten years, on the pretext of building on an antiquities site. I got a mobile room and an outdoor bathroom as a donation from ACTED, but the occupation forces also confiscated them, now my children were left in the wild and I don’t know where to go.”

During the past four months, the occupation intensified assaults at the area of Fasayil Al-Wousta , and a large number of structures and facilities were demolished , in addition to closures imposed on vast areas of antiquities (as the occupation claims).

The Occupation turned most of lands in Fasayil Al-Wousta into closed military zones and governmental properties, and most facilities received demolition and removal notices on the pretext of building without a license.

Bedouins of Fasayil Al-Wousta descend from Arab Az-Zayed , Al-Kharbeesh , Al-Ebeyat clans. they were displaced from their homeland in 1948 Beer As-Saba’a towards South Hebron and later to the Jordan Valley , to live a dangerous life under the occupation’s arbitrary measurements.

Palestinian Bedouins in Fasayil Al-Wousta practice a basic lifestyle , and depend on cattle breeding as a main source of income, but the occupation is not leaving them alone , and they work day and night to empty the area for future colonialist projects around Pezael illegal colony.

This report was prepared as part of Secure Palestinian Land & Housing Rights project activities

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