• Violation: serving stop-work orders
• Location:  Beit Ummar- Hebron governorate
• Date:  January 2017
• Perpetrators: Israel Civil Administration
• Victims:  residents from the village

Details:

Israeli occupation authorities served stop-work orders on residences in the Hebron village of Beit Ummar. Noteworthy, the structures belong to citizens from Al-Arrub refugee camp, who bought lands in Beit Ummar village to settle in there.

The orders targeted the following:

1.  The residence of Abdelnaser Jum'a: the owner received the stop-work order on January 17, 2017 targeting his under construction house (180m²). The house was supposed to be home for 8 member family including two children.

The order assigned February 09, 2017 as the hearing session of the Inspection Sub-Committee in the Israeli court of Beit El colony to consider whether to demolish the structure of restore its previous status.

Photo1 : the order targeting Jum'a's residence

Photo 2: view of the targeted residence

 

2. The residence of Yahya Mughrabi : the owner received the stop-work order on January 03, 2017 targeting his under construction house (150m²). The house was supposed to be home for 4member family including two children.

The order assigned January 19, 2017 as the hearing session of the Inspection Sub-Committee in the Israeli court of Beit El colony to consider whether to demolish the structure of restore its previous status

Photo3 : the order targeting Mughrabi's residence

Photo 4: view of the targeted residence

3. The residence of Ismael Jawabra  : the owner received the stop-work order on November  11, 2016 targeting his under construction house (150m²). The house was supposed to be home for 8 member family including six children.

Photo5 : the order targeting Jawabra's residence

Photo 6: view of the targeted residence

4. The residence of Mohammad Jum'a  : the owner received the stop-work order on November  27, 2016 targeting his under construction house (120m²).

Photo7 : the order targeting Jum'a's residence

Photo 8: view of the targeted residence

The affected owners explained that the orders were delivered to their houses by the so-called "Structures Inspector"- Israel Civil Administration. At time, a vehicle from the Civil Administration raided the area, hanged the order on the targeted structures and took photos of them before they had left.

 

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC