Marking 2268 Olive and Citrus Trees for Removal in Salfit

Marking 2268 Olive and Citrus Trees for Removal in Salfit

 

Violation: Marking 2268 olive trees and citrus trees in order to be uprooted
Date: 7/07/2013
Perpetrators: Israeli Environment Ministry
Victims: 21 farmers
 
Violation:
 
Qana Valley, north of Salfit governorate, witnessed yet another Israeli attack. The Israeli occupation doesn’t allow Palestinian farmers to use the land in the valley or plant it. They cut down trees and build colonial roads. They even go as far as soaking the valley with sewerage water. On 7/07/2013, the Israeli occupation marked 2268 trees in Qana valley in preparation to uproot them. What is so called the Israeli Environment Ministry justified the action by saying that the trees were illegally planted in what they call a natural reserve in reference to Qana valley.
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Pictures 1-4: Some of the trees under the threat of being uprooted- Qana valley

 
The trees are estimated to be 3-10 years old and are owned by 21 farmers from Deirstia village. The schedule shows general information about the trees targeted by the Israeli occupation:
 
No.
Affected Farmer
No. of Trees
Estimated Age
Olive
Citrus
Almond
1
Rafeeq Awwad
200
0
0
More than five years
2
Moqbel Awwad
50
0
20
More than five years
3
Shehada Awwad    
50
0
0
More than five years
4
Ismael Awwad     
50
0
0
More than six years
5
Saeed Awwad     
80
0
0
More than six years
6
Ibrahim Awwad    
80
0
0
More than six years
7
Tawfeeq Awwad    
50
0
0
More than five years
8
Yousef Abdul-Razzaq  
50
0
0
More than five years
9
Abdul-Aziz Aqel  
15
0
0
More than five years
10
Azzam Aqel        
30
0
0
More than five years
11
Abdul-Hamed Thiab 
15
0
0
More than five years
12
Rateb Abdul-Razzaq
20
0
0
More than five years
13
Yousef Mansour
45
99
11
More than five years
14
Qasem Mansour
30
0
0
More than five years
15
Abdul-Kareem Mansour     
700
0
0
More than five years
16
Abdul-Razzaq Mansou     r
90
30
0
More than five years
17
Jihad Mansour
7
4
0
More than five years
18
Khader Mansour   
459
0
0
More than seven years
19
Mofeed Zeidan
15
0
0
More than seven years
20
Saeed Zeidan
57
0
0
More than seven years
21
Fareed Zeidan
11
0
0
More than seven years
Sum
2104
133
31
 
Total Sum           
2268
 
Source: Field Research- Dept. of Israeli Violation Inspection- Land Research Centre , July 2013.
 
Qana valley in lines:
 
The valley lies in the northwestern side of Deirstia village . Most of the land in the valley is owned by farmers living in Deirstia. The area of the land is about 10, 000 donums and is considered a natural reserve according to Oslo. It also has 10 water springs. On the land of the valley and the surrounding region, six colonies were built, one of which is Amano’el that uses the valley for dumping sewerage water and thus polluting it.
 
The valley overlooks "Yaker" colony from the southern side and near to is "Nofem" colony. From the north side, there are three colonies surrounding the valley and they are: "Karni Shamron", "Jannat Shamron", and "Maa’ni Shamron".
 
Feelings of insecurity as a result of consistent attacks from the colonizers have badly affected the agricultural industry and the area of agricultural land in the valley. The unfair laws by the Israeli Environment Ministry have also contributed to the bad status since it hinders Palestinians from taking advantage of most of the land.
 
 
 
Categories: Israeli Violations