Dozers of the Israeli occupation municipality's demolished on May 05, 2017 an under-construction residential building in the village of Al-Tur on the claim of "unlicensed construction"

The building accommodates four apartments(100m² each) in two floors and is established on a 350m² parcel. Noteworthy, the building is only 1km away from the apartheid wall.

It should be noted that the building is owned by Rami Sayad and Khalil Abu Sbitan.

Abu Sbitan explained that him Rami Sayad and started construction in 2016  but were forced to stop after the municipality issued a demolition order against the establishment. He also said that his two sisters intended to move in to the building to live in two of his apartments.

He said: "For the last 4 months, we've been trying to license the building and have submitted the required documents through our lawyer ( Roni Dikhter) and engineer. The documents were preliminary approved by the official authorities and we paid 20 thousand NIS as a fine not to mention the lawyer's and engineer's fees. The lawyer was able to postpone the demolition until 1/5/2017. He tried to postpone it again but was unable due to the Jewish holidays last week."

Land Research Center LRC sees that demolitions contradict with all of the International conventions and Humanitarian laws including:

Article 17 of the (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating: “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”

Section ‹G› of article 23 of the (1907) The Hague Conventions asserting: “In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden to destroy or seize the enemy's property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war.”

Article 53 of the Geneva Fourth Convention (1948) declaring: “Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, or to the State, or to other public authorities, or to social or cooperative organizations, is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.”

Section 1, Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966): “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent."

This case study is part of Kan'aan Project