A whole community is threatened of demolition in Samu’- Hebron governorate

May 15, 2014

Violation: notifying a big number of facilities in Ghuwein
Date: May15, 2014
Location: Samu’- Hebron governorate
Perpetrators: the Civil Administration of the occupation
Victims: the residents of the village

Details:

On May 13, 2014 the authorities of the occupation served a number of structures in Ghuwein, south of Samu’ town in Hebron stop work orders. Citizen Abdel Mune’m Hawamdeh(62) stated that: “ a patrol of the occupation accompanied by officers of the Civil Administration raided the village and served stop work orders to different structures and a mosque”.

The orders indicated that the structures were unlicensed and assigned June11, 2014 a final date to consider whether to demolish the structures or leave them to their original status

Concerns were shown that the occupation will embark demolition on the notified structures to put a pressure on citizens to leave their lands, which facilitate achieving colonial plans. The stop work orders targeted 9 people living in Ghuwein as follows:

Citizen Abdul Mun’em Hawamdeh(62) who works in the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of six children family (3 kids). Orders targeted his structures as follows:

No.	Type of Structure	Date of construction	Structure nature	Area in m2	Oder no.	Photo
	House		Cement blocks and metal slabs		160911	1
	Animal shed		Fences and angels	200	160910	2

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Ismael Daghamin(2) who works in the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of 11 children family (5 kids). Orders targeted his structures as follows:

No.	Type of Strcutures	Date of construction	Structure nature	Area in m2	No. of Military Order	Photo
	Animal Shed		Cement blocks and metal slabs		160907	3
	House		A Plastic shed tent		160908	4
	External Toilet		Cement blocks and metal slabs		160909	5

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Mansi Hawamdeh(70) who works in the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of 12 children family (1 kid). Orders targeted his structures as follows:

No.	Type of Strcuture	Date of construction	Structure nature	Area in m2	Military Order No.	Photo
	House		Cement blocks and roofed with Plastic shed	60 م2	160906	6

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Khadir Hawamdeh(80) who works in the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of 4 children family. Orders targeted his structures as follows:

Structure	Structure nature	Area in m2	Order	Photo
House	Blocks and roofed with Plastic shed	50	160903	7
Barn	Plastic shed and metal slabs	40	160903	8
Fodder warehouse	Metal angles and Plastic shed	40	160904	9
Barn		40	160904	10
House	Plastic shed	30	160905	11

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Jum’a Hawamdeh(41) who works in the woods trade, the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of a 7 children family including 4 kids. Orders targeted his structures as follows:

No	Structure	Date of construction	Structure nature	Area in m2	Number of	Photo
			Cement bricks roofed with plastic shed	m2	160889	12

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Ahmad Hawamdeh(40), who works the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of a 3 children family. Orders targeted his structures as follows:

Structure	Nature of the structure	Area in m2	Number of the order
Barn	Bricks and metal slabs	100	160896	13
House	Bricks and cement	70	160898	14
House	Bricks and cement	70	160898	15
Gathering room	Bricks and metal slabs	60	160897	16
Barn	Metal slabs	50	160902	17

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Issa Hawamdeh(32) who works the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of a 6 children family including 4 kids. Orders targeted his structures as follows:

No.	Structure	Year	Nature of the structure	Area in m2	Military Order	Photo
	House		Bricks and metal slabs	60	160901	18
	Animal Barn		Plastic shed	40	160899	19

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Khalil Hawamdeh(29) who works the agricultural sector and animals breeding. He is the supporter of a 4 children family including 2 kids. Orders targeted his structures as follows:

No.	Structure	Date	Nature of structure	Area in m2	Military Order	Photo
	House		Plastic shed and metal slabs	50	160893	20
	Barn	2009	60	160894	21
	House		Plastic shed	70	160895	22
	Barn		Plastic shed		160895	23

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Citizen Halima Hawamdeh(60). Orders targeted her structures as follows:

No.

Structure

Year

Nature of structure

Area in m2

Military Order

Photo

House

Plastic shed

150

160890

Barn

Metal slabs and plastic shed

160891

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

The Mosque of the Khirbet: it was established in 2012 and built using bricks and metal slabs for the roof. It has a general area of 60m2.

Photo of the mosque order no.160892

Photos 26+27: A scene of the mosque

About Ghuwein :

The village is located 6km south to Samu’ town and is considered part of it. It has a total population of 150 until 2014 of 14 families of Hawamdeh and Dghamin. The Khirbet is linked to Samu’s by a rough uneven agricultural rood that crosses the bypass road no.317. With no kind of services available in the Khirbet, villagers fully depend on plantation and animals breeding. From the west of Ghuwein, there is Shani Levni colony, and from the east there is al-Kharaneh area. As for the north; there is Samu’a and a bypass road where from the south; there is the apartheid wall which was founded on more than 1000 confiscated dunums of the village.

Photo 28: A scene of Ghuwein

The Khirbet underwent several assaults from the Israeli occupation that as a matter of fact has closed its main gates by dirt and blocks. In addition, the electricity network of the village was demolished as well.

Therefore, the resident of the village demanded on the human rights organizations to step in and stop the occupation activities against them as well to provide them with a new electricity network.

About Samu’s:

The town is located 18km from the southern part of Hebron city. Form the north; there are Yatta town, Aziz, and al-Manather and from the east; there is Susya colony. Khirbet al-Harabeh and Ghuwein are there from the south.

The town has a population of 25340 people until 2014 and has a total area if 45250 dunums, 93 of which are the built-up area.

The Israeli occupation has confiscated 2786 dunums explained as follows:

284 dunums were confiscated for the favor of the following colonies:
Shim’a colony that was established in 1985 with a population of 357 colonists confiscated 37 dunums.
Shale Levni hat was established in 1989 with a population of 438 colonists confiscated 37dunums.
Ezlien colony that was established in 2004 confiscated 94 dunums.
The bypass roads no. 30, 317, 3178 confiscated 1610 dumums.
The apartheid road confiscated 892 dunums and segregated more than 1065 dunums. Noteworthy, the wall is of 18215m in length.

Smau’ roads, according to Oslo Accords, are classified as follows: