• Violation: serving stop-work orders
• Location:  December 20, 2016
• Date:  Al-Sawahra Al-Sharqiya- Jerusalem governorate
• Perpetrators: Inspection Sub-Committee- Israel Civil Administration
• Victims:  residents of the community

Details:

Israeli occupation authorities issued on December 20, 2016 stop-work orders  that targeted a medical clinic and a school under the pretext of unlicensed construction. The chieftain of Al-Muntar Bedouin community, Mohammad Hadhaleen, said that a vehicle relative to Israel Civil Administration arrived at the community, issued the orders and hanged them on the targeted structures. Noteworthy, the field research team of Land Research Center was present at the location at time the under construction structures were notified.

Photos 1-2:  Israel Civil Administration while raiding the location

Photos 3+4: the targeted structures

The following table shows information about the targeted structures:

No.	Structure	Family	Minors	No. of order	Remarks
1	School	20	20	202004	Consists of 5 classrooms
2	Medical clinic	420	210	202003	Two rooms

It should be noted that the school and the clinic were funded by EU through Action Against Hunger association ACF.

Currently, the project " Integrated Protection in Area C: Enhancing the Resilience of Communities to Violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law" is being implemented  by Land Research Center in partnership with OXFAM and funds by the Belgium government. While work to establish a 300 dunum natural reserve was ongoing, Israeli Occupation Forces confiscated pastoral seedlings and agricultural tools. Not only, worker at the site were chased and assaulted by the occupation forces.

The following violations on the site were documented:

No.	Type of violation	Description	Date
1	Confiscation of vehicles	A pickup truck owned by Husam Hamayel. The vehicle is still confiscated.	20.12.2016
2		4WD car used to transport workers from and to the workplace. The car was held and a ground fine of 2774 NIS was imposed on the vehicle. The attorney's fees totaled 2000 NIS. The car is owned by Sulayman Hadhaleen	20.12.2016
3	Pastoral seedlings	Confiscation of 2500 Akasia seedlings	29.12.2016
4	Agricultural tools	Pickaxes and other digging tools
5	Metal wires	Two packages of metal wires that are used to fix fences.

Photo 5: the minutes of confiscation

 

Al-Muntar Bedouin community:

It is one of the Bedouin communities located in East Jerusalem; it has a total built-up area of 36 dunums. The community is inhabited by 68 families (470 members) who hail from the Bir Al-Saba' area, from which they were displaced in 1948. Residents of the area belong to four main clans namely (Hadhaleen, Hamadi, Krushan and Sawahrah). Metal slaps and barracks barracks are the common material of the people's residences. Residents of the community depend on livestock and poultry husbandry; they have 200 agricultural dunums where they plant wheat and barley.

Borders of the community:

Al-Muntar is edged by Arab Al-Jahaleen community from the east, Al-Sawahrah Al-Sharqiya village from the southwest and Abu Nuwwar community from the north.

Noteworthy, the community lacks basic needs and services such like roads networks, transportation, electricity and access to health and education.

 

 

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
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