Israeli Occupation Issues 10 Stop Work Orders

Violation: The issuing of 10 Stop Work Orders against Palestinian structures including 4 houses.

Location: The village of Barta’a Al Sharqiyya west of Jenin Governorate.

Date: March 7^th, 2011

 

 

The village of Barta’a Al Sharqiyya fell victim twice for the Israeli occupation policies; in 1948 it lost a large portion of its lands as the Green Line approved by the United Nations has separated between members of the same family as ones stayed on the “Israeli” side while being supported only by a small valley from their relatives. The fallout of the village continued in the aftermath of the occupation of 1967 as the houses, trees and properties were targeted by the occupation forces throughout the duration of the occupation especially that most of the lands of the village were classified as Area C in accordance with the Oslo Accords.

 

On March 7^th, 2011, the Israeli so-called “Civil Administration” raided the village and distributed 10 Stop Work Orders against Palestinian houses and agricultural structures under the pretext of being built in Area C “without a permit.” Occupation forces provided the owners of the structures only until Match 31^st to file an appeal against the Orders and to try and get the needed permits. 

 

The issued orders come in line with the practiced policies implemented by the Israeli occupation forces to vacate the land from its original inhabitants as a prelude for confiscating it. As of today, more than 190 Stop work Orders have been issued against houses and other structures in the village. That is in addition to the actual demolition of 19 structures in the village under the same pretext.

The following table lists the issued Orders and its relevant information:

 

 

Name	No. of Structures	No. of Family Members	Type of Structure	Area in m2	Construction Material
Farouk Mohammad Kabha	1	7	Sheep brux	250	Zinco
Farouk Mohammad Kabha	1	0	Room	50	Zinco
Farouk Mohammad Kabha	1	0	Brux under construction	300	Zinco
Mohammad Ibraheem Kabha	1	6	Container	50
Kamal Abdel Qader Kabha	1	8	Container	50
Mohammad tawfeeq Kabha	1	5	Sheep brux	100	Zinco
Manal Ahmad Kabha	1	8	Under construction house	150	Cement
Mohammad Tala’at Kabha	1	2	Under construction house	150	Cement
Shadi Mustafa Qundus	1	4	Under construction house	150	Cement
Mohammad Mustafa Qundus	1	3	Under construction house	150	Cement
TOTAL	10	43

Source: Land Research Center – Israeli Violation Monitoring Unit

 

The Village of Barta’a:

The village of Barta’a Al Sharqiyya is located 30 kilometers west of the city of Jenin. The closest town to it is Ya’abad located 1 kilometers east of it. Three small khirbets surround the village including Khirbet Barta’a, Khirbet Abduallah Younis and Khirbet Al Mintar. The Israeli Racist Isolation Wall surrounds the villages from its eastern and southern directions leading to its separation from the West Bank. The area of its Master Plan is around 3,500 dunums while the total area of the village is 21,000 dunums. Its population (according to the village council) is 3900 most of them are from the Kabhha clan.

 

Israeli occupation forces started to establish the Racist Wall around the village in 2002, thus turning the lives of Palestinians into an unbearable hell with only one gate that came to be known as Al Reehan Checkpoint. The checkpoint is the only entry point into and out of the village. To make things worse, since May 16^th, 2007, the administration of the checkpoint was handed over to a private security company and the checkpoint became as a “port” that required extensive search of each person entering or existing the village