Israeli Occupation Delivers Stop Work Orders Against 7 Structures in the Town of Deir Ballout

Violation: The issuing of 7 Stop Work Orders.

Date: September 15^th, 2010.

Location: The town of Deir Ballout.

 

 

On the morning of Wednesday September 15^th, 2010, the so-called Israeli ‘Civil” Administration delivered 7 Stop Work Orders against Palestinian residential and agricultural structures under the pretext of being built without a permit in Area C. The targeted structures are located in the western and southern area of the town in locations known as Khallet Qasoul and Al Safha. These locations are located near the Racist Isolation Wall setup by the Israeli occupation forces on Deir Ballouts’ la 

 

  

 

The following table lists the relevant information regarding the said Orders:

No.	Name	No. of Structures	Area	No. of Family Members	Type of Structure
1	Abdullah Mahmoud Abu Khair	1	120	7	House under construction
2	Khaled Dawood Ahamd Abu Khair	1	145	5	House under construction
3	Idrees Jibara Abdullah	1	90	3	House under construction
4	Waleed Deeb Salem Khair	1	180	7	Inhabited house
5	Jaser Ahmad Mahmoud Abdulah	1	60	9	Animal pen
6	Saeed Deeb Salem Abu Khair	1	134	4	House under construction
7	Akram Abdel ghafer Jibara Hasan	1	120	6	House under construction
TOTAL		7	849	41

 

The Orders provided a time interval until the 11^th of October, 2010, to start the process of obtaining the needed permits.

 

The recent Stop Work Orders have increased the number of threatened structures in the town since the year 2000 to more than 40 structures that varies between residential, agricultural, industrial and even water storage facilities. It has to be pointed out that the limited area of the Master Plan of the town (743.5 dunums out of its 18,000 dunums) has pushed a large number of the 5,000 residents of the town to build outside of the boundaries of the Master Plan. Most of such buildings and structures are, thus, located in Area C which warrants the issuance of the Stop Work Orders by the Israeli occupation forces. 

 

The town is located 30 kilometers west of the city of Salfeet in close proximity of the Green Line. The population of the town is approximately 5,000 most of which depend on agriculture as the main source of income. The unemployment rate is the town approaches 64%.

 

 

 

 

The overall area of the town is about 18,000 dunums of which 809 dunums are its built-up area. The town lost approximately 8,000 dunums due to the establishment of the Israeli Racist Isolation Wall on its lands in the western and southwestern direction of the town. Moreover, the colony of Peduel devoured an additional 500 dunums. Currently, the total area of the colony is 592 dunums with a built-up area of 171 dunums. Until the year 2006, the population of the colony was 1219 colonists.