• Violation: notices to stop work in housing and agricultural facilities.

• Location: Al-Wad Al-Ahmar area - Fasayel town / Jericho governorate.

• Date of violation: 10/05/2022.

The aggressor party: the so-called civil administration affiliated with the occupation.

• Affected side: three Bedouin families.

• Details of the violation:

On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 10, 2022, the Israeli occupation army, accompanied by the so-called construction inspector of the Israeli Civil Administration, raided the Al-Wad Al-Ahmar area to the north of Fasayel village, and targeted a number of residential and agricultural tents by sending notifications containing orders to stop construction and work in them under the pretext that they were built without a license in Area C of the Oslo Accords. These facilities are owned by three Bedouin families who reside in the area seasonally.

According to the details contained in those notifications, the occupation set a date (5/25/2022) for the civil administration session, which is based in the Beit El settlement, to consider demolishing the tenets and the facilities or leave the place to its previous state.

It is noteworthy that the three affected families’ tents had previously been confiscated, those tenets that they owned in the same location on (27/1/2022), under the pretext of residing within an area classified by the occupation as being closed military zone, according to its description.

The following table shows details about the affected families according to the field follow-up at the affected place:

During the year 2020, the Al-Wad Al-Ahmar area witnessed repeated demolitions with the aim of emptying the area in favor of expanding the area of settlements there, noting that the number of families residing there are (12) Bedouin families, who have lived in the area for more than 25 years and depend on grazing and raising sheep for their only source of income.

Citizens reside there during the winter period in the Sahel Aqraba and Lafjom region, and in the summer they reside in the Al-Wad Al-Ahmar area north of Fasayel.

It should be noted that the Al-Wad Al-Ahmar area, along hundreds of dunams, is considered one of the important pastoral areas that the occupation turned into what is called government property. The settlement of "Yafit" and also a racetrack for cars serving the settlers was established on it, while the Bedouin citizens were left living in difficult conditions due to the harassment of the settlers. The occupation army that deprives them of their most basic human rights and is trying hard to get them out of the region as a whole.

It should also be noted that these notifications issued by the occupation come as a prelude to a final demolition order that will fellow it. Under the same pretext (non-licensing), noting that the occupation authorities do not grant a license to any Palestinian building in Area C, despite the citizens applying for this type of license.