2022-03-13
The so-called council of settlements in the Jordan Valley demolishes and confiscates a number of commercial stalls / Tubas Governorate
• Violation: demolishing commercial stalls.
• Location: the northern Jordan Valley, east of Tubas Governorate.
• Date of violation: 3/13/2022.
• The aggressor: the so-called council of settlements in the Palestinian Jordan Valley.
The affected party: four Palestinian families.
• Details of the violation:
For the second time in a row in less than ten days, the so-called Israeli settlement Council in the Jordan Valley began demolishing four commercial stalls located on both sides of the bypass road No. 90, next to the villages of Bardala and Ain al-Bayda, on Sunday morning (13/3/2022). In the northern Jordan Valley, under the pretext of assaulting the bypass road, according to the settlers claim, noting that on March 3, 2022, the owners of those stalls were handed over notifications containing an order to remove the stalls as being illegal, according to the settlers’ description. For more, see the report issued by the Land Research Center at the time, “The Report.”
According to the field follow-up, the following table shows details about the settlements targeted for demolition:
| Name of the affected citizen | Number of family members | Number of children | The nature of the notified facility | |
| Male | female | |||
| Ghassan Mahmoud Ahmed Fiqha | 3 | 1 | 3 | A stalls for selling vegetables, made of wood, with an area of 12 m² |
| Faris Abdullah Abdul Rahman Sawafta | 2 | 2 | 1 | A stalls for selling vegetables, made of wood, with an area of 12 m² |
| Nidal Ahmed Abdel Rahman Sawafta | 4 | 5 | 3 | A stalls for selling vegetables, made of wood, with an area of 12 m² |
| Shady Nabil Aref Fiqha | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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| Total | 12 | 9 | 9 |
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The stalls that were demolished by the settlers in the Jordan Valley[1]
It is noteworthy that what the settlers have done is a dangerous indication that they have given a prominent role in controlling the Palestinian reality and roads along the northern Jordan Valley, As part of the regional councils of the settlements spread in the Jordan Valley, this reflects that the occupation is proceeding with the processes of Judaization and changing the character of the lands, and even changing all the occupier laws in force since 1967 through the implementation of new orders that are consistent with the occupation’s plan to annex vast areas of Palestinian lands in the Jordan Valley.
According to field researchers’ indications, the Israeli occupation seeks to impose facts on the ground, striking all previous agreements with the Palestinian side, and even paving the way for imposing a unilateral law that is fully aligned with the aspirations of the occupation to end the Palestinian presence in the Jordan Valley.
[1] Photo source: Tubas Governorate.
