Land Research Center

Violation : Halt of work order.

Location : Tour Al-Batiya –  Nahalin town / Bethlehem governorate.

Date: 07/08/2019.

Perpetrator: The Israeli occupation civil administration.

Victims: Mohammad Shakarna.

Description:

The Israeli occupation civil administration under the protection of the occupation army raided Nahalin town in August 07, 2019 , and served a notice to Ahmad Shakarna on the pretext of building without licenses.

The notice orders the immediate stoppage of construction works , and says that in 02/09/2019, the subcommittee session will be held to decide the fate of the structure.

Noteworthy, the occupation authorities raided the area in Eid Al-Adha holidays, at times most of official departments are closed , and owners won’t be able to prepare their ownership deeds, which makes it easier for the occupation to carry out their schemes.

Jihad Fanoun told LRC reporter:

“Our town is continuously targeted by the Israeli occupation authorities ,any new structures in C area are immediately subjected with halt of work or demolition notices.”

Mohammad Shakarna owner of the targeted house told LRC reporter:

“my dream is to build a house for my family in my own plot”.

The following table shows more information about the notice:

Noteworthy, after the Nakba the occupation authority continued their colonization policies raising the slogan : “Colonization is vital for Israeli and the Zionist project survival”. Thus, the occupation’s departments recruited Othman and British mandatory laws for confiscating more lands and displacing more Palestinians .

Such Israeli policies are practiced in a daily basis in Nahalin town , Mohammad Shakarna house  is located on a high ground in the area and overlooks the whole town , it is also close to Gosh Etzions settlement cluster, which reveals the government scheme to confiscate areas that surround the cluster for the favor of colonization.

Nahalin:[1]

The village is located 10 km to the south west of Bethlehem and 3.5 km to the east of the armistice line of 1949.

The village's total area is 18,858 dunums including 890 dunums of built-up area, inhabited by 8741 people according to the PCBS statistics of 2017.

Israel has confiscated 4,283 dunums from the village lands 3,583 dunums of which for colonial expansion purposes and 700 dunums for the favor of bypass roads. There are 8 colonies founded on the village land, namely (Beit Ein, Tsoref, Majdal Oz, Jabot, Kfar Etzion, Efrat, Illit, Rosen Tsurem and Allon Shevut).

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[1] GIS-LRc