Stop-work orders on three residential room in Yatta town

March 25, 2015

Violation:  serving stop-work orders

Date: 25/03/2015

Location:  Khirbet Jinbah /Yatta town

Perpetrators: Israel Civil Administration and army

Victims:  citizen of the area

Details:

The Israeli occupation authorities on March 25, 2015 served stop-work and construction orders on three residential rooms owned by citizens from Khirbet Jinbah in Masafer Yatta.

The Israeli Civil Administration accompanied by an army patrol stormed the area at noon, hanged the orders on the structures and took photos of the place before they had left.

The orders compelled a halt on construction works under the pretext of lacking building permits. April, 04 ,2015 was assigned as the hearing session of the Planning Sub-Committee in the Israeli court of Beit El to consider the status of the notified structures. The following table lists information about the structures and owners:

Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations-Land Research Center -2015

Jinbah:

Jinbah is a small village located in an area known as Masafer Yatta, 12km to the south east of Yatta town. It is inhabited by 27 families which are around 207 people. Residents of the area depend on livestock. Most of the village structures are built of bricks, metal slabs, and sackcloth; the structures are very simple in their nature. The village holds a school, a kindergarten, and mosque within but they are all threatened with demolitions. A small generator provides the village with power while they get their fresh water from cisterns.

An unpaved road connects the village with the surrounding communities; the locals rehabilitated one km of the road in the past year but the Israeli responded by issuing stop-work orders for that road.

The village is edged by Mizpe Ya'ir (west), the segregation wall (south and east) and Masafer Yatta (north).

For further information about what Khirbet Jinbah went through, please read the following reports issued by Land Research Center in this regard:

1. The Israeli occupation sabotage the winter crops in the area of Masafer Yatta (Ar, Eng)
2. Raiding school and destroying crops (Ar, Eng)
3. Stop-work orders on a residence and barn in Khirbet Jinbah (Ar, Eng)
4. Yacoub Dalia, an Israeli colonist held accountable of most of the attacks on Palestinian farmers of Yatta (Ar, Eng)
5. Displacement in Jinbah (Ar, Eng)
6. The Israeli occupation ravages hundreds of dunums in Masafer Yatta (Ar, Eng)

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC