Land Research Center

Violation: seizing lands

Location:  Tammun area- Jordan Valley

Date:  December 19, 2017

Perpetrators: Israeli Occupation Forces

Victims:  farmers of the area

Details:

 The commander of Israeli Military in the West Bank issued on December 19, 2017 to dispossess 3.3 dunums from Tammun area in Jordan Valley and use it for military purposes.

Reportedly, a 78 meters road will be opened in the confiscated area to serve military ends.

It is noteworthy that the targeted area "Al-Adela" surrounds Humsa Al-Fauqa area and overlooks Buq'ut colony, which has been recently expanding at the expense of Palestinian lands.

  the seized lands

The military order

Sahel al-Bikai'a under the spot of targeting:

This area of 98800 dunums witnessed too many violations and attacks by the Israeli occupation over the past 40 years. Lately, the Israeli authorities confiscated 2km of water pipes that were used to move water from the area of Beit Djan to Sahel al-Bikai'a. Not only that, shepherds were not safe from the Israeli violations represented in dentition , sheep confiscation,  and physical assaults. Fines are imposed on shepherds as per restoring their sheep as a result. 

There is no doubt that the military training held in the area is destroying a big area of agricultural lands, crops and animal reproduction season.

Land Research Center LRC sees that land grab contradicts with all  of the International conventions and Humanitarian laws including:

• Article 49 of Fourth Geneva Convention: " Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive".
• Resolution 465 (1980) Adopted by the Security Council at its 2203rd meetingon 1 March 19805:
• Determines that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and that Israel's policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
• Strongly deplores the continuation and persistence of Israel in pursuing those policies and practices and calls upon the Government and people of Israel to rescind those measures, to dismantle the existing settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.
• Calls upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connexion with settlements in the occupied territories.
• Requests the Commission to continue to examine the situation relating to settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, to investigate the reported serious depletion of natural resources, particularly the water resources, with a view to ensuring the protection of those important natural resources of the territories under occupation, and to keep under close scrutiny the implementation of the present resolution.

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