Halt of Work Notices for 10 Houses in Haris Village / Salfit Governorate

Halt of Work Notices for 10 Houses in Haris Village / Salfit Governorate

 

  • Violation: Halt of Work Notices.
  • Location: Haris Village / Salfit Governorate.
  • Date: August 16th 2021.
  • Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration.
  • Victims: 10 families from the village.

Description:

Monday, August 16th 2021, the occupation authorities served a halt of work notice on the pretext of building without a license, In Haris Village north Salfit Governorate.

Monday morning, the Israeli Civil Administration served Halt of Work military orders to 10 families.

The military orders targeted the southern and eastern parts of the village, both of the locations became the only escape for people of the village, and today the occupation launches a campaign that limits construction activities at the area.

The notices sat September 1st 2021, as the date of the subcommittee session in Beit El military court to decide “Demolishing the structure or returning it to its previous status”. The following table shows more information about the targeted structures:

Affected Citizen

Family members

Area m2

The targeted facility

Military order number

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Hisham Sultan

6

180

Under construction house (one floor and a basement)

31380

Nidal Klaib

11

150

Under Construction House (one floor)

31381

Sami Sultan

5

200

Building (stores + apartment) under construction

31382

Khalid Qassim

3

100

Under Construction house without a ceiling + 150 m road

31383

Suliman Shamlawi

4

80

One-floor house

31385

Saleem Shamlawi

7

130

One-floor under construction house + a wall

31386

Ahmed Shamlawi

2

130

One-floor under construction house + a wall

31387

Maher Shamlawi

5

140

One-floor house

31388

Ahmed Shamlawi

3

140

One-floor under construction house

31389

Nassir Sultan

7

120

One-floor under construction house

31390

N\A

Total

54

1370

10

 

 

 Source: Israeli Violations Monitoring Section – Land Research Center, August 2021

 


More than 45 houses and Facilities in Haris received Halt of Work notices, while Revava colony is expanding quickly on the village lands.

About Haris:[1]

7 km to the northwest of Salfit governorate, Haris is located with a total land area of 8769 dunum, of which 190 dunums are the village’s built-up area. Haris is surrounded by the villages of Deir Istiya from the north, Kifl Haris from the east, Kfar ad-Dik and Bruqin from the southwest and Qarawat Bani Hassan from the west.

It has a total population of 3740 people according to the census of Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for 2009. Those people hail from the following families: Abu Atta, Dawoud, Salamih, Sultan, Shihada, Souf, Faz’, Awwad, Qasim, and Klaib. The Israeli occupation confiscated 3631 dunums from the village as follows : 

  1. Israeli colonies confiscated 2672 dunums as detailed in the below table

colony

Year of establishment

Confiscated area\dunum

Number of colonists

Kiryat Netafim

1982

188

384

Revava

1991

269

703

Burkan

1981

177

1207

Burkan Industrial

1981

1346

Ariel Industrial

692

Total

 

2672

2294

  1. 726 dunums were confiscated to open the bypass roads numbers ( 505, 4765, 5506)
  2. The apartheid wall confiscated 233 dunums for its establishment. Upon its completion, the wall will isolate 7135 dunums

According to Oslo Accords, the lands of Haris are classified as follows:

  • 631 dunums are classified as area “B”
  • 7815 dunums are classified as area “C”

[1] GIS-LRC

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC

Categories: Military Orders