Stop-work orders on structures and workshops in Hebron

March 22, 2015

Violation: serving stop-work orders

Date: 22/03/2015

Location: Beit Ummar village/ Hebron governorate

Perpetrators: Israel Civil Administration and army

Victims: members of Alqam family

Details:

Israeli authorities on March 22, 2015 ordered four Palestinian residents of Beit Ummar town to suspend the construction work of three homes and an auto workshop to the north of Hebron.

Citizens asserted that Israeli forces along with staff from the Israeli civil administration stormed the area of al-Mantra to the east of the town and handed three residents notices to stop the construction work on their homes.

They were recognized as Amro Alqam, and the two brothers Mohammad and Mohannad Alqam. Mohammad’s family has been living in the 50-square-meter house for the past five years.

Army forces also handed Yousif Alqam a notice to stop the construction work on his auto workshop despite having the legal documents that prove his ownership of the property. The order came under the pretext of being too close to Gush Etzion settlement bloc.

All four residents were ordered to appear before court in Beit El settlement on April 13 to look into the cases.

The orders reached out the following:

Yousif Alqam: Alqam was served a stop-work order on his auto workshop that is located on a 2 dunums plot since 2010. This work shop is a source of income for Alqam family (7 members) and his other two brothers' families (14 members)

Photo 1: the order on Alqam's workshop

Photos 2+3: the threatened work shop

Muhanad Alqam: Muhanad was served a stop-work order on his house that is still under construction. The construction of the 80m2 house started in 2014.

Photo 4: the order on Muhanad's house

Photo 5: a view of Muhanad's house

Omar Alqam: Omar was served a stop-work order on his house that is still under construction. The construction of the 90m2 house started in 2012.

Photo 6: a view of Omar's house

Mohammad Alqam: Mohammad was served a stop-work order on his house that is established since 2010. The 50m2 house shelters his 6 member family including 4 minors.

Photo 7: the order on Mohammad's house

About Beit Ummar:

It is located 12 km to Hebron city. The village's total area is 21,285 dunums , of which 1,375 dunums are considered the built-up area; around 13, 548 people inhabit Beit Ummar.

The Israeli occupation authorities confiscated 560 dunums from Beit Ummar for the favor of the bypass road no.60. The occupation also confiscated 1,216 dunums for the favor of the following colonies:

Colony	Year of establishment	Dunums confiscated from Beit Ummar	Built-up areadunums	No. of colonists
Karmei Zur	1984	179	289	623
Migdal Oz	1977	682	1,076.4	298
Kfar Etzion	1976	18.6	923.5	404
Efrat	1979	98.6	2,063.6	7,037
Alon Shevut	1971	237.8	934	3,146
Total		1216	5,286.5	11,508