Israeli Occupation Forces confiscate residential and agricultural tents from Tubas governorate
- Violation: confiscation of 13 tents
- Location: Bardala town- Tubas
- Date: November 06, 2016
- Perpetrators: Israeli Occupation Forces
- Victims: five Palestinian families
Details:
At noon of November 06, 2016, Israeli Occupation Forces accompanied by the inspector of Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration raided the area of Khirbet Al-Himmih, south Bardala town and confiscated nine residential tents, three agricultural tents and one tent for fodder.
It should be marked that the confiscated tents were donated by the French ACTED organization and the Italian GVC organization to support the families threatened of displacement after getting their structures demolished in September 2016.
Photo 1: the demolished hamlet of AL-Himmih
Minutes of confiscation issued by Israel Civil Administration
The following table shows information about the affected people and their properties:
|
Affected citizen |
Family |
Minors |
Confiscated tents |
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|
Residential/area m2 |
Sheep tent/area m2 |
Others/area m2 |
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|
Mahmoud Awwad Ayoub |
8 |
4 |
Two residential tents (50+50) |
Sheep tent (60) |
|
|
Rasmi Mahmoud Ayoub |
6 |
2 |
Two residential tents (50+50) |
Sheep tent (60) |
Tent for fodder (12). Not donated. |
|
Hani Mahmoud Ayoub |
6 |
1 |
Two residential tents (50+50) |
Sheep tent (60) |
|
|
Waleed Mohammad Ayoub |
4 |
2 |
Two residential tents (50+50) |
|
|
|
Basim Mahmoud Ayoub |
2 |
0 |
Residential tent (50) |
|
|
|
Total |
26 |
9 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
The area of Khirbet Al-Himmih is banned , by the occupation, from reconstructing what has been demolished in there. Not only, the occupation confiscates the humanitarian aids donated by any type of organizations. This step is undertaken by the occupation to push Palestinians out of the area so it becomes available for colonial expansion plans.
Al-Himmih hamlet is only 500m away from Bardala village. The hamlet populates 76 people who fully depend on agriculture as main source of income. Few hundred meters from the hamlet, Salit colony is active in establishing a new outpost. Electricity and water are being provided to the new outpost as a step to expand on the land and take more areas over.
It should be marked that Land Research Center documented around 26 cases of houses and structures demolition in Khirbet Al-Himmih during 2016.
Some international laws and convections pertaining to confiscation and destruction of properties:
- Art. 147. Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
- Article 17 of the (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating: “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”
- Section ‹G› of article 23 of the (1907) The Hague Conventions asserting: “In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden to destroy or seize the enemy's property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war.”
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
