- Violation: notifying structures of stop work
- Location: Bardala/ Tubas governorate
- Date: May 07, 2018
- Perpetrators: the Planning Sub-Committee of the Israeli occupation
- Victims: Sawafta family
Details:
On May 07, 2018, the so called Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration raided Bardala village and served stop work orders on sheep barrack, agricultural room and water cistern under the pretext of unlicensed construction within area classified C according to Oslo Accords.
According to the military order, the owners were given until May 24, 2018 as a deadline to complete all licensing procedures. This comes in time with session of the Planning Committee in the so-called Beit El court to consider the legal status of the notified structures.
The following table shows information about the targeted structures:
Affected citizen |
Family |
Minors |
Cost (NIS) |
Nature of structure |
Area\m2 |
No. of order |
Photos |
Mohammad Saleh Sawafta |
7 |
2 |
45,000 |
Sheep barrack Tin-roofed storage |
240 |
203498 |
1 |
Mohammad Hussni Sawafta |
9 |
1 |
12,000 |
Mobile room Shed |
45 45 |
203499 |
2 |
22,000 |
Artisan well |
18 m (depth) |
N/A |
3 |
Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2018
About Bardala
The village is situated 25 km to the north of Tubas. It is surrounded by the Green Line (north), Raba (west), Ain al Baeda (east) and Tubas (south).
It has a population of 2112 people according to a 2014 census. It's total area is 18329 dunum, 404 of which is built-up area.
The Israeli occupation devoured 252 dunums of its land to open the bypasses road #'90. It also confiscated 819 dunums to build the Separation Wall(8197 in length) and isolated 2100 dunums of Bardala land as a result.
According to Oslo Accords, 90% of the village is area C, i.e. under Israeli authority while only 5% is area B.
Area B (910 dunum)
Area C (16845 dunum)
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC