Land Research Center

Violation: Demolition of retaining walls.

Location: Al-‘Auja town north Jericho.

Date: June 24^th 2021.

Perpetrators: The building Inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration.

Victims: Citizen Ja’far Mahmoud.

Description:

Thursday, June 24^th 2021, The Israeli Occupation Forces Accompanied by the building inspector raided Al-‘Auja town north Jericho , and demolished retaining walls built of bricks.

The walls are built of bricks (70m * 2 m) surrounded by a part of a plot that belong to citizen Ja’afar Mahmoud (60 years) who supports a family of 9 , 2 of them are children (4 females).

Affected Citizen received a military order entitled removal of a new building numbered (10018) in May 24^th 2021, the notice gave the owner 96 hours to remove the walls, and was issued in reference to military order 1797 enacted about three years ago to limit Palestinian construction in C area.

Demolition of retaining walls

Military order

The Demolition of the walls came in the same time with demolishing a cafeteria nearby Al-Ka’abneh Bedouin community southeast Al-Auja, also based on a notice issued in reference to military order 1797.

Al-‘Auja village – an overview:[1]

12 km from Jericho city, Al-‘Auja village has a total area of 106,399 sunums, of which 1,186 dunums are a built up area for the village , it also has a population of 5,224 people until 2017 census.

The Israeli occupation confiscated about 4717 dunums for colonization , 1600 dunums are military bases for the army, while bypass 90 , which is 8,180 m long and devoured 818 dunums, in addition to Israeli settlement that ate up 2,299 dunums, as shown in the following table:

[1] GIS-LRC