Israeli Occupation Forces notify residences and storage units of Stop-work in Salfit

January 4, 2017

• Violation: issuing stop-work orders on structures
• Location: Haris village- Salfit
• Date: January 03, 2017'
• Perpetrators: Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration
• Victims: four Palestinian families

Details:

The officer of the so-called Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration delivered four families from Haris village stop-work orders targeting three residences and some commercial storages on the claim of unlicensed construction within area classified "C" according to Oslo Accords.

According to the orders, the affected owners were given a deadline until January 23, 2017 to complete all licensing procedures. This comes in time with the hearing session of the Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration in Beit El colony to consider the legal status of the notified structures. The following table shows information about the affected owners and their properties:

Non-stop military orders:

It should be noted Haris village received more than 33 stop-work orders on different structures including houses, workshops and other facility until 2016.

The occupation justifies the issuance of stop-work orders under the pretext of building without licenses in area classified as area "C" according to Oslo Accords.

About Haris:

7km to the northwest of Salfit governorate, Haris is there with a total land area of 8769 dunum, of which 190 is the built-up area. Haris is surrounded by the villages of Deir Istiya from the north, Kifl Haris from the east, Kfar ad-Deek  and Bruqin from the southwest and Qarawat Bani Hassan from the west.

Haris has a total population of 3740 people according to the census of Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for 2009. Those people relate to the following families: Abu Atta, Dawoud, Salamih, Sultan, Shihada, Souf, Faz', Awwad, Qasim, and Klaib

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC