Israeli Occupation Authorities Issue Stop Work Orders against Palestinian Houses in the Village of Kafr Qalil

 

On the 21^st of July, 2009 Israeli occupation authorities issued 13 Stop Work orders against Palestinian structures in Kufr Qallil under the pretext of being built in Area C without a permit from the so-called “Israeli Civil Administration.”

 

 

The following table lists all the relevant information relating the said Orders:

No.	Name	Area in m2	Family Members	Order No.	Type of Houses
1	Jasem Farah Naser Mansour	145	7	144304	Inhabited
2	Ahmad Ibrahim Mahmoud Aziz	120	4	144311 (Order 1)	Under construction.
3	Omar Hmeid Oudeh Abu Hmeid	140	9	144310 (Order 2)	Inhabited
4	Nidal Shukri Abdel Rahman Titi	70	3	144301 (Order 3)	Under construction.
5	Fuad Mohammad Khalil Mansour	70	2	144309 (Order 4)	Under construction
6	Mithqal Abbas Juma’a Mustafa	160	9	144312 (Order 5)	Inhabited
7	Amjad Mohammad Asa’ad Khitab	185	7	144103 (Order 6)	Inhabited
8	Fatima Mahmoud Taher Mansour	120	11	144306	Inhabited
9	Nazmi Kazem Hasan Antar Tahhan	120	2	144307 (Order 7)	Under construction
10	Mohammad Naser Adeeb Risha	140	6	144302	Under construction
11	Majdi Naji Hafez Titi	120	8	144308	Inhabited
12	Aziz Abdel Khalq Mansour	70	2	144312	Under construction
13	Khaled Jamal Abu Hameid	140	5	144313	Under construction
TOTAL		1600	75

 

 

 

Israeli occupation authorities gave the owners of the houses until the 13^th of August, 2009 to attend the scheduled court hearing in Beit El as to “straighten their houses situation.” It is worth pointing out that since the year 2000 Israeli forces have issued 20 Stop Work orders against structures in Kufr Qallil under the pretext of being built without a permit.

 

The village of Kufr Qallil is located south of the city of Nablus. It has a population of 2,451. Its area is 4,064 dunums of which 388 are its built-up area. The inhabitants depend of rainwater harvesting and a number of water springs (such as Ein Al Balad, Ein Al Sarein, Ein Al Sibyan and Ein Fakoura) to meet their drinking and irrigation needs.

 

 

 

There are 3 clans in the village; Mansour (the largest and includes the sub-clans of Qanna and Abdel Raheem), A’amer (including the sub-clans of Saleh, Ahmad and Hamad) and Diab.

 

The lands of the village of Kufr Qallil are under the constant threat of being confiscated for the benefit of the nearby colony of Barakha. The colony was established in 1982 after confiscating lands from the villages of Kufr Qallil, Burin and Iraq Burin. There are 880 colonists living in the said colony. Its area is about 647 dunums of which 120 dunums were stolen from Kufr Qallil village.

[1] GIS Unit at LRC.

[2] Ibid.