Violation: a number of families notified with stop work
Location: Duyuk al-Fouqa/ Jericho
Date: 07/07/2014
Perpetrators: the Inspection Sub-Committee of the Israeli Civil Administration
Victims: 9 Bedouin families and the Bedouin Youth Center

Details:

The community of Arab er-Rashayda residing in the area of Duyuk al-Fouqa, east of Jerusalem has been going under a series of targeting characterized in displacing residents for the sake of achieving colonial plans.

On Monday of 07/07/2014, a massive force of the Israeli occupation accompanied by the so-called  the Inspection Sub-Committee of the Israeli Civil Administration raided the Bedouin community and served more than 5 stop work orders on different structures of which three houses(metal slabs) funded by Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED). Noteworthy, the fund came after residences had been previously demolished in 2013. In addition, six sheep barns were notified besides the Bedouin Center for Youth (funded by the UN and implemented by Sharik organization) that was also a target of the wide-range notifications.

It is indicated that the military orders will affect 9 Bedouin families of 62 members including 42 minors. According to those orders, the notifications came under the pretext of unlicensed construction within area classified C according to Oslo Accords. The occupation gave the residents until 06/08/2014 as a final date to complete the licensing procedures and submit it to Beit El court, which is going to consider the legal statuses of the notified structures.

The occupation completely refused to license the Bedouin community: 

The chieftain of er-Rashayda community, about the complex licensing process, to the LRC researcher stated the following: “After the last demolition that affected 4 houses and 6 barracks in Arab er-Rashayda on 13/06/2013, we started working on licensing all buildings and creating a new master plan of the community in cooperation with the governorate of Jericho, attorney Tawfiq Jabarin, and surveyor Ibrahim Oudeh. All legal papers and documents were ready to be filed to the Civil Administration CA, which in that regarded completely denied the community the permit. The officer of the CA made it clear that the lands are Israeli property and announced a futuristic plan of “Bedouin Township”, which involves merging the random Bedouin communities in the Palestinian Jordan Valley into two Bedouin communities such like the case in Beir el-Saba”.

Photo 1: a side of the targeted Bedouin community

 

The following table shows the threatened facilities in the location of Arab er-Rashayda:

No.	Citizen	No. of sheep	Family	Minors	No. of barracks	Area/m2	No. of barracks	Area/m2	Notes	Order	photo
1	Bedouin Center for Youth				1	30	0	0	Established in 2012, funded by the UN, and implemented by Sharik organization( activities:  students activities, and trainings)	180013	2
2	Suliman Zayed	140	11	9	1	45	1	42	Not notified before (the house is made of bricks and metal slabs 4 years ago)	180014+180015	3+4
3	Suliman Abu Khrbish	10	8	6	0	0	1	45	Not notified before( the barrack is made of metal and cloth sheds)	180009	5
4	Suliman al-Zayed	58	8	6	1	90	0	0	Previously demolished (the house is made of metal slabs; funded by ACTED two years ago)	180003	6
5	Salih al-ZAyed	50	5	3	1	90	1	100	Previously demolished (the house is made of metal slabs; funded by ACTED two years ago)	180012+180010	7 +8
6	Hasan al-Zayed	77	11	9	0	0	1	40	Not notified before( the barrack is made of metal slabs)	180004	9
7	Hussien al-Zayed	160	7	3	0	0	1	100	Previously demolished( the house is made of metal bricks and cloth sheds)	180005	10
8	Ibrahim al-Zayed	50	7	5	0	0	1	60	Previously demolished( the house is made of metal bricks and cloth sheds)	180011	11
9	Deifallah al-Zayed	65	2	0	1	90	0	0	Previously demolished (the house is made of metal slabs; funded by ACTED two years ago)	180006	12
10	Najih al-Zayed	0	3	1	1	60	0	0	Not notified before( the barrack is made of metal slabs)	180007	13
Total		610	62	42	6	405	6	387

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

 

 

  

About Arab ar-Rashayda

 Arab ar Rashayda, like many other Palestinian dwellings spread over the hills of the Valley, is a target of the Israeli occupation that seeks to kick people out and clear the area of its indigenous inhabitants only to serve Israel's expansive plans. It is worth mentioning that Arab Ar Rashayda went through two Diasporas. The first one was in 1948 when they had to leave Beersheba and flee to the West Bank. The other one was in 1984 when the Israeli occupation sent them away to areas in Ramallah villages and the Jordan Valley.

And in 1997, many of Arab Ar Rashayda people settled in Ad Duyuk al Fauqa for the abundance of water and pastures. Nonetheless, the Israeli occupation still harasses them. About 320 people of Arab ar Rashayda live in ad-Duyuk al Fauqa in Jericho. 

About Duyuk al-Fouqa:

The town is located 8km to Jericho city and is surrounded by: Nuweimeh from the east, Ein el-Sultan camp from the southeast, and Deir Qruntul from the south. Duyuk has a population of 1058 people until 2014 and has a total land area 65839 dunums of which 149 is the built-up area. The town lands fall into two classification according to Oslo Accords as follows:

14962 dunums(23% of the village’s total lands) classified as area A ; that is under the Palestinian authority.

50,877 dunums (77%) classified as area C; that is administratively and military under the Israeli authority (source: Geographic Information System- LRC)

The occupation confiscated around 6909 dunums from the lands of the town explained as follows:

• 5188 dunums for the favor of Na’ami colony( established in 1979 with a population of 123 colonists)
• 646 dunums for the favor of the bypass road no.90.
• 1075 dunums for the favor of military camps.

 

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
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