Violation: Orders for eviction agricultural lands.

Location: Al Yamoun and Al Arqa villages, south Jenin.

Date: March, 3^th 2025.

Perpetrator: The so- called Israeli Civil Administration.

Affected party: Several farmers.

Details:

Monday morning, March,3th 2025, Khirbet Srouj area followed up to Al Yamoun village and Al Akhsas area followed up to Al Arqa west Jenin governorate witnessed several orders to eviction by the custodian of government property of the Israeli civil administration.

These notices targeted about 300 dunams from citizens’ lands planted with olive trees and including agricultural rooms and cisterns to harvesting water, contains about 3300 olive trees and wells to harvesting water for agricultural purposes.

The Israeli occupation claims that these lands classified as‘’ state lands’’, demanding to evict them and return to previous situation during 45 days, as the occupation threatened if the owners don’t carry out the orders, they would take it upon themselves to implement the order and incur the costs.

It’s worth mentioning that a part of these targeted lands were rehabilitated and establish cisterns to harvesting water and plant it with olive saplings in 2012, implemented by LRC within project improving the standard of living in Palestinians’ lands.

The following table shows the details and the names of threatened area:

The lands that the occupation targeted with eviction of notices - Jenin Governorate

The head of Al Arqa village council told as follows

‘’A few days, we shocked that the occupation raided west village and near The annexation and expansion wall on 200 meters away from it, as sat up several numbers of orders including remove trees and evict agricultural plots and destroy other plots, demolition structures and well, noted that lands rehabilitated since 2012 by project from LRC, as most of affected farmers own official papers included leasing papers from Jordanian government with taboo lands with completed levelling process in Jordan, this is enough to prove that the land is inhabited and exploited over past years.’’

This land destruction process indicates that the Israeli occupation state turns its back on all international human rights laws and conventions. It practices discriminatory measures against the Palestinians, stripping them of their property, whether it be buildings or land. This occupation policy is a grave sin committed by the occupation and a violation of all international norms and laws, which stipulate the following:

• The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, Article 174: "The destruction and appropriation of property on a large scale is prohibited, unless required by an urgent military necessity, and is carried out in an illegal, unlawful, and arbitrary manner."
• The Roadmap Agreement signed between the Israelis and Palestinians (under the sponsorship of the United States, the European Union, Russia, and the United Nations) on April 30, 2003, which called on the Israeli government to freeze all settlement construction activities: "The Israeli government must immediately work to dismantle all settlement outposts established since March 2001, in accordance with the Mitchell Report, and the Israeli government must freeze all settlement construction activities, including natural growth, as per the plan adopted and issued by USCR 1515-2003."
• Security Council Resolution 446 of 1979: "Called on Israel to cancel its previous measures and refrain from taking any action that would alter the legal status, geographic nature, or materially affect the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, especially Jerusalem, and not to transfer its civilian population."
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly under Resolution 217 A (III) on December 10, 1948, states: "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property," which means that Israel is not allowed to destroy or confiscate Palestinian property under any pretext.

 مشروع: حماية الحقوق البيئية الفلسطينية في مناطق "ج" SPERAC IV - GFFO

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إخلاء المسؤولية: الآراء ووجهات النظر الواردة في هذا التقرير هي آراء ووجهات نظر مركز أبحاث الأراضي ولا تعكس بالضرورة وجهات نظر أو مواقف الجهة المانحة للمشروع؛ المجلس النرويجي. للاجئين