Land Research Center

Violation: Demolition Order for a residence and a retaining wall.

Location: Beit Sira village / Ramallah Governorate.

Date: July 11^th 2021 and August 16^th 2021.

Perpetrates: The Building Inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration.

Description:

Sunday, July 11^th 2021, the building inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration raided the western neighborhood of Beit Sira village west Ramallah city, and served a demolition order for citizen Sufyan ‘Anaqwa on the pretext of building without a license.

The Israeli Occupation Continuously target Palestinian structures and residences in C area, which is being devoured gradually for colonial schemes.

According to demolition notice number (61098), the occupation gave the owner 30 days to object.

Affected Citizen Sufyan ‘Anaqwa told LRC:

“The house was built in 1974, but renovations were implemented during summer of 2020, and it is licensed.

In February 21^st 2021, The Occupation Served a halt of work notice for a house despite providing the necessary papers for the license application, but the occupation authorities rejected the application, and my family is now facing the fear of eviction.”

Monday, August 16^th 2021, the Israeli Occupation Forces served halt of work notices for retaining walls built of stones, baton, and wooden angles around a plot that has a total area of 800 m² belongs to citizen Mohammed ‘Anaqwa , on the pretext of building without a license.

Notice number (31833) sat September 1^st 2021, as the date of the Building and Organization session in Beit El military court to decide the fate of the structures.

Citizen Mohammed ‘Anaqwa told LRC:

“A year ago, I started building cement walls around my plot , but soon I received a halt of work notice. This is not the first time we suffer from the occupation’s barbarism, during summer of 2020, the occupation demolished my family home (one floor 210 m²) on the pretext of building without a license. Noteworthy, the targeted house is built at the middle of a residential area.”

Beit Sira village council member Yousif Al-Haj told LRC the following: “There is a clear Israeli scheme to empty the village from residences, a large number of houses received halt of work notices, and two facilities were already demolished in the past.”

The following table shows more information about the damages:

Photo 1: Building of Sufyan ‘Anaqwa

Notice number 61098 which targets Sufyan family

Photo 2: The notified retaining wall

Notice number 31833 which targets the retaining wall for Mohammed family

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