Halt of work notices on 4 houses in Jal’ud village / East Qalqilya

• Violation: Halt of work notices.
• Location: Jal’ud village/ East Qalqilya.
• Date: 07/08/2019.
• Perpetrators: The Israeli occupation civil administration.
• Victims: 4 families from the village.

Description:

Wednesday 7^th August 2019, The Israeli occupation forces accompanied by a vehicle from the building and organization department in the civil administration raided Jal’ud village south east Qalqilya, and served 4 halt of work notices on houses on the pretext of building without licenses.

Reportedly, the targeted neighborhood is located west the village , in an area classified C in Oslo accords , The notice set the second of September 2019, as the building and organization session to decide the fate of the structure. The following table shows information about the targeted structures:

Source: First hand field observation – Israeli violations monitoring section – LRC , August 2019

Salah Oudeh (50 years) told LRC reporter:

“Most of Khirbet Jal’ud  is in C area according to Oslo accords, and we have no other plots for construction of a house , that is why I was shocked when receiving a halt of work notice. The construction of my house cost about 170,000 NIS , we reached out to a human rights institution , hoping to rescue our houses”.

‘Izbet Jal’ud[1]:

‘Izbet Jal’ud village is located 34 km south Qalqily, it is bordered by  Ras ‘Atiya and Ad-Daba’a (north), the green line (west), Al-Mudawar (east) , and ‘Izbet Salman (south).

‘Izbet Jal’ud has a population of (146) people according to 2017 census.

‘Izbet Jal’ud has a total area of 796 dunums, of which 25 dunums are a built up area.

The segregation wall (921 m) ate up 92 dunums and isolated 388 dunums.

According to Oslo accords the village is divided as the following: –

• B area: 69 dunums.
• C area: 727 dunums.

[1] Source : GIS – LRC.

Prepared by

 The Land Research Center
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