Demolition Orders Aiming at Displacing Wadi Abu Jheish community in Yatta – Hebron

Violation: Issuing of demolition orders against 10 residential and agricultural structures.

Date: October 4^th, 2010.

 

 

Israeli occupation authorities distributed on the 4^th of October, 2010, a number of demolition orders calling for the destruction of an entire community in the area of Wadi Jheish south of Khirbet Susiya in Yatta, Hebron.

 

 

 

Mr. Fuad Al Nawaja’a, one of the residents of the Wadi, indicated that the so-called Israeli “Civil” Administration raided the area and distributed the said orders to all structures in the area.

  

 

The structures include tents for humans, animal pens as well as water cisterns used to meet the drinking water needs of the population. 

 

 

Similar to other communities located in the vicinity of colonies, Wadi Jheish suffers from repeated attacks by colonists including chasing herders off, preventing farmers from reaching their lands in addition to repeated nightly incursions into the tents of the Wadi.

 

 

 

 

No.	Name	No. of Structures	Family Members	No. of Children	Area in m2	Type of Structures	Year of Building
1	Ibraheem Ismaeil Al Nawaja’a	3	7	3	50	Tent	2007
					70	Animal pen	2007
					50	Animal brux	2005
2	Fuad Ibrahim Al Nawaja’a	1	2	—–	36	Tent	2004
3	Nidal Ibrahim Al Nawaja’a	1	5	3	36	Tent	2004
4	Khalil Al Nawaja’a	4	2	—–	170	Tents, animal pens and bruxes	1985
5	The community	1				Bathroom unit used by  the residents of the Wadi
		10	16	6	412

 

It has to be noted that all of the targeted tents and bruxes were purchased by the members of the community themselves except for one tent that was donated by the Palestinian Hydrology Group.