Violation: serving stop-work orders

Location: Al-Khadr town

Date:  April 28, 2018

Perpetrators: Israel Civil Administration

Victims:  Citizens Samih and Samir Salah

Details:

A staff from Israel Civil Administration backed by a force from the occupation army raided on April 28, 2018 Al-Khadr town s and served stop-work orders on the houses of citizens Samih and Samir Salah on the claim of "unlicensed construction".

Noteworthy, the targeted houses are located in a mountain area and near Efrat colony. Thus considered a threat on colonists and their houses.

The father of the affected owners said that the Israeli Occupation Authorities aim at taking over the whole area to carry out colonial expansionist activities.

 The following table shows information about the affected citizens and their properties:

Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2018

Photos of the notified structures

Al Khadr:

Located 4 kilometer west of Bethlehem, Al Khadr village is surrounded by Beit Jala and Battir (north), Husan and Nahhalin (west), Ad Doha, Wadi Rahall, and Beit Jala (east), Wadi An Nais (south).

Al Khadr has a population of 9774 according to statistics conducted in 2007. It has a total area of 8279 dunums, 184 of which are built-up area.

The Israeli occupation confiscated 29 dunums of Al Khadr lands for Efrat and Daniel colonies. Efrat was built in 1979 and devoured 5.8 dunums of Al Khadr. It is inhabited by 7037 colonists. Daniel was built in 1982 and confiscated 23 dunums. 1073 colonists live in the colony.

Bypasses number 60 and 375 devoured more than 487 dunums. Not to mention the Apartheid Wall that destroyed 280 dunums and isolated 5638 dunums of the village. The Wall in Al Khadr is 2805 meters long.

According to Oslo Accords, 10% of Al Khadr is under Area A (PA has full civil and security control) while 6% is under Area B (PA is in charge of civil matters with Israel responsible for security). However,  most of the village lands (84%) is under Area C (Israel maintains full security and administrative control). Here are the area in dunums:

Area A (808) dunums

Area B (475) dunums

Area C (6996) dunums

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