The Israeli occupation demolishes agricultural rooms, water pool and retaining walls in Nablus
Violation: demolitions of various structures
Date: 02/02/2015
Location: Qusra village/ Nablus governorate
Perpetrators: Israeli occupation army
Victims: three families
Details:
A massive force from the Israeli occupation accompanied by a military dozer on February 02, 2014 raided the southern part of Qusra village known as Kita' Kamel and embarked on demolishing structures. Noteworthy, the area is few meters away from Yish Kudish outpost.
Demolitions reached out two agricultural rooms that were built in 2013, a pool for rainwater catchment that was established in 2014 and some retaining walls.The chairman of Qusra village council told Land Research Center the following :
"the Israeli occupation claimed the two rooms unlicensed and that is why they were demolished but the actual reason as declared by the army commander is to stop the Palestinian expansion nearby the colony's periphery and protect colonists; this means sabotaging hundreds on agricultural dunums for the favor of tens of colonists who wreck havoc in the area".
Another targeting on the village:
In same time the occupation demolished the aforementioned structures in the southern part of the village, another force from the army demolished a 144m retaining wall, which is located in the eastern part of the village nearby Migdalim colony. The occupation justified the demolition under the pretext of the structure being without a permit.
The following table shows information about the affected citizens :
|
Affected citizen |
Family |
Location |
Structure nature |
Aream2 |
Funding body |
Date of previous order |
Photo no. |
|
Anwar Oudeh |
7 |
Kita' Kamel |
Water pool |
80 |
Palestinian Cabinet |
24/4/2014 |
|
|
Anwar Oudeh |
– |
Kita' Kamel |
Agricultural room |
16 |
French Consulate |
18/5/2013 |
|
|
Samir Hasan |
6 |
Kita' Kamel |
Agricultural room |
16 |
French Consulate |
18/5/2013 |
|
|
Rajeh Kan'an |
8 |
Al-Shamalia |
Retaining walls |
144 |
—– |
4/6/2014 |
|
|
Total |
21 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations-Land Research Center-2015
About Qusra:[i]
It is located 23 km to the south of Nablus city and is administered by Qusra village Council. Qusra is surrounded by Jurish (south), Talfit (west), Majdal Bani Fadil (east), and Mizpe Rachel colony (south).
Qusra is inhabited by 5644 people according to 2014 PBS population projections. Its total area is 8886 dunums that include 775 dunums of built up area.
The Israeli occupation confiscated 223 dunums of the village lands for the sake of:
- Migdalim colony that devoured 155 dunums. It was built in 1984 and is inhabited by 152 colonists.
- Bypass road no. 508 that took over 68 dunums.
According to Oslo Accords, Qusra is divided into area B (4323 dunums) and area A (4563 dunums).
[i] Source: Geographic Information System- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Center
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