• Violation: issuing stop-work orders on residences
• Location:  Kfar Ad-Dik- Salfit governorate
• Date:  March 20, 2017
• Perpetrators: Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration
• Victims:  seven Palestinian families

Details:

The so-called Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration delivered on March 20, 2017 stop-work orders for seven families from Kfar Ad-Dik town, west Salfit governorate. The orders targeted seven residences on the claim of them being built in area classified "C" according to Oslo Accords.

Noteworthy, the targeted residences are founded in the area known as Al-Khalayeel, west of the town.

According to the orders, the affected owners were given a deadline until March 30, 2017 to complete all licensing procedures. This comes in time with the hearing session of the Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration in the court of Beit El colony to consider the legal status of the notified structures. The following table shows information about the affected people and their properties:

Affected citizen	Family	Minors	No. of order	Nature of targeted structure	Photo
Ahmad Bakr Ahmad	11	5	203773	Under construction two story house (13m2 each floor)	1
Raed Ahmad	4	2	203772	145m2 house	2
Radiya Naji	6	4	203651	60m2 under construction basement	3
Sumia Ahmad	7	3	203774	90m2 under construction house	4
Ashraf Naji	3	1	203650	110m2 house	5
Yazeed Ahmad	8	2	N/A	Agricultural residences (60m2)	6
Ibrahim Ahmad	5	3	N/A	Agricultural residences (60m2)	7
	44	20

 

Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2017

 

 

 

It should be noted that Kfar Ad-Dik town as other Palestinian villages, cities and camps suffers from the Israeli escalation of attacks and violations against basic rights including the right to housing .  By 2000,  more than 20 residences were served stop-work orders on the claim of them being location in area classified "C" according to Oslo Accords. Despite that owners of structures apply for building permits, Israeli Occupation Authorities never grant them such licenses for Palestinians.

Kfar ad Dik [i]

Kfar ad Dik is located 15 km to the west of Salfit. It is surrounded by Bidya (north), Rafat and Deir Ballut (west), Bruqin and Sarta (east), and Bani Zaid villages (south). Kfar ad Dik has a population of 4553 people, according to a 2007 census.  Its total area is 15529 dunums; however, it has been suffocated by bypasses and 3 Israeli colonies that lay over its lands. This has further limited its expansion knowing that it had already had a 791-dunum organizational plan (built-up area); it also isolated the village from its surroundings. The Israeli occupation confiscated 2477 dunums of Kfar ad Dik lands for the benefit of:

1. Colonies devoured 1225 dunums, and they are:

Name of colony	Year of construction	Area of confiscated land/ dunum	Number of colonists
Har Eli Zahav	1983	134	NA
Eli Zahav- Yoezer	1982	290	424
Bedoel	1984	800	1088
Bruchin	1999	1	NA

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

2. Bypasses stole 362 dunums
3. The Apartheid Wall seized 890 dunums and isolated 8824 dunums and is expected to be 8905 long in Kfar ad Dik lands.

Lands of Kfar ad-Dik are categorized according to Oslo Accords into lands under Area B (15% of the lands) and lands under Area C (85% of the lands).

i] Source: Geographic Information System- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Center

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC