- Violation: a plan to take over new Palestinian areas
- Location: Sanniriya village- Qalqiliya
- Date: January 27, 2017
- Perpetrators: Planning Supreme Council- Israel Military Administration
- Victims: farmers from the target area
Details:
Planning Supreme Council- Israel Military Administration on January 27, 2017 advertised the depositing of the new master plan number ( ت/20/121) that stated the transformation of vast areas' use from agricultural to urban in Sanniriya village, south Qalqiliya city.
According to the declared plan, the target areas are :
- Harayeq Al-Suwanah of the natural block number 4
- Block number 9164 , parcel number 79 of Sanniriya lands
It should be marked that the plan aims at:
- Change use of lands from agricultural to residential areas
- Pointing out construction procedures within the project
It should be marked that the occupation never stopped depositing master plans for colonies located near by the Armistice Line "green line" for the purpose of taking over vast areas of lands and expanding colonies on.
About Oranit:
The colony was established on confiscated lands from the villages of Azzun Atmah and Izbat Salman in 1983. With a total area of 1,134 dunums, of which 1,107 dunums are the colony's built-up area, Oranit populates around 5316 colonists until 2006.
Photos 1-2: Oranit colony founded on lands from Qalqiliya
Copy of the advertisement featured on Ministry of Interior webpage on January 24, 2016
Aerial photo illustrating the target lands by the plan
UN Security Council resolutions in regard to Israeli colonies:
UN Security Council resolution 446, article 3 " Calls once more upon Israel, as the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, to rescind its previous measures and to desist from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the occupied Arab territories;"
- Un Security Council resolution 452, article 3"Calls upon the Government and people of Israel to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem;"
- Un Security Council resolution 465, Strongly deplores the continuation and persistence of Israel in pursuing those policies and practices and calls upon the Government and people of Israel to rescind those measures, to dismantle the existing settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem;
- Calls upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connexion with settlements in the occupied territories;
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Un Security Council resolution 242, Affirms that the fulfilment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
(i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
(ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
