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New Pastoral Outpost to be Established in Deir Dibwan town / Ramallah Governorate
Violation: Establishing a new Pastoral outpost.
Location: Deir Dibwan town / Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate.
Date: April 2nd 2023.
Perpetrators: a group of radical colonists.
Victims: a number of farmers at the town.
Description:
Sunday , April 2nd 2023 , a group of radical colonists raided the southern area of Deir Dibwan in Al-Karma area , precisely in natural blocks (25,26,27) and sat up residential and agricultural tents at the location leveling to take over an area of 4 dunums.
Noteworthy , the targeted lands were registered in Jordanian land settlement in the names of farmers at the town , colonists started establishing an outpost in order to impose their control over vast areas of pastoral areas.
Citizen Ayoub Mansour , member of Deir Dibwan municipal council told LRC: “The targeted area is very important to farmers at the town , it surrounds more than 90 dunums of farmers lands , the outpost will restrict farmers’ movement , especially as farmers are completely blocking the southern area.”
Noteworthy, this is not the only outpost to be built during this time , another one is growing in Wadi As-Seeq area , which means the confiscation of vast areas of Deir Dibwan , and more Judaization at the area on the expense of indigenous people and culture.
About Deir Dibwan:
5 kilometer east Ramallah, Ramallah is surrounded by Ramon and Ein Yabrud (north), Beitin (west), Al-Nuwe’ma and Ein Dyuk Al-Fuqa (east) , Anatta, Mikhmas. Burqa from the south.
Deir Dibwan has a total population of 4169 people according to statistics conducted in 2017. It has a total area of 74,285 of which 1,789 dunums are a built-up area of the village. The occupation devoured (4121) dunums for the following purposes:
1: settlements confiscated 1346 dunums:
| Settlement’s name | Establishing year | Area of confiscated land | Number of settlers |
| Kokhav Yaacov | 1984 | 51.4 | 3,918 |
| Mitzpe Danny | unavailable | 87.7 | unavailable |
| Neve Erez | 1981 | 1.114 | 980 |
| Maale Mikhmas | unavailable | 62.7 | unavailable |
2: Bypass roads (458 and 457) devoured over (1,543) dunums.
3: Military camps devoured (1,232)dunums
According to Oslo conventions The areas are clarified in donums as following:
- Area A (307) donums
- AreaB (12,925) donums
- Area C (61,052) donums .