Serving stop work orders on agricultural barracks in Bardala

September 16, 2014

Violation: agricultural barracks notified with stop work

Location: Bardala/ Tubas governorate

Date: 16/09/2014

Perpetrators: the Planning Committee of the occupation

Victims: two families(13 member including6 minors) from the village

Details:

On September 16th 2014, the so-called Planning Committee of the Civil Administration served two families from Bardala stop work orders on their agricultural barracks under the pretext of unlicensed construction within area classified C according to Oslo Accords.

According to the military orders, the owners of the two barracks were given a deadline until 24/09/2014 to complete the licensing procedures. This comes in time with the session of the Planning Committee in the court of Beit EL. Noteworthy, the structures were established on February 2014 to be used for sheep husbandry, taking into consideration that they were built by metal slabs and wood. The following table shows information about the damaged resulted|:

Affected citizen	Family	Minors	No. of sheep	No. of order	Area of the barrack	No. of photo	Notes
Hamid Sawafta	5	3	68	160421	60 m2	1
Ahmad Daraghmah	8	3	90	160422	90 m2	2	had a structure demolished before
Total	13	6	158

Source: Monitoring Israeli Violation Department- Land Research Center, 2014

About Bardala

Bardala is located in the northeastern part of the Jordan Valley; the village is situated 25 km to the north of Tubas. It is surrounded by the Green Line (north), Raba (west), Ain al Baeda (east) and Tubas (south). It has a population of 2112 people according to a 2014 census. It's total area is 18329 dunum, 404 of which is built-up area.

The Israeli occupation devoured 252 dunums of its land to open the bypasses road #'90. It also confiscated 819 dunums to build the Separation Wall(8197 in length) and isolated 2100 dunums of Bardala land as a result. According to Oslo Accords, 90% of the village is area C, i.e. under Israeli authority while only 5% is area B.