Revava colony expands on Haris Village lands / Salfit Governorate

October 2, 2022

Violation: Establishing a new colonial block.
Location: Haris village west Salfit.
Date: October 2^nd 2022.
Perpetrators: The High organization council at the Israeli Civil Administration.
Victims: People of Haris village.

Description:

The high organization council on the Israeli Civil Administration – Colonization subcommittee published signs in “At-Tayrat” area within natural block (8) of Haris village lands west Salfit , the signs include a plan that shows where the expansions will take place , in the area that connects the colony Revava , to Burkan , and Kryat Netavim , on lands that were registered as state lands , on an area of 265 of postures.

Last August, the Israeli Civil Administration and the high organization council at the Israeli Civil Administration deposited a new organizational plan (170/5) to expand control area that Revava colony covers. The order is a modification of the British Mandate plan that targets the location.

This will expand Revava colony double its current size , and turn it into one large cluster along with Ariel, Elkana , Burkan and Rivava colonies , this will devour large parts of the governorate lands .

The Occupation targeted a number of colonial plans in Rivava colony , LRC Israeli Violations team documented the plans and the targeted area:

The targeted location	date	Number of units	Plan no.	Plan status	notes
Natural blocks 2 , parts of locations: Al-Burj, and Khallet Haida from Haris lands	February 24^th 2014	–	No 170/5/2	Announcement of plan deposition	Announcement made by high organization council , colonization subcommittee and the aim is:1- changing land allocation from agricultural areas into area allocated for buildings , public facilities for the Ministry of education , working sports , open public areas and roads. 2- publishing construction instructions within the project borders.
Haris	August 16^th 2016	17	170/4/5	Announcement of plan deposition	Anouncement made by: high organization council – Colonization subcommittee.
Deir Istiya Natural blocks 8 and 2	January 23^rd 2020	55	170/4/8	Announcement of plan deposition
Deir Istiya natural block 8 And Haris natural block 2	February 11^th 2021		170/4/8	Announcement of plan deposition
Deir Istiya town natural block 8 , At-Tayrat klocation. Haris village natural block (2) Al-Breig location	August 8^th 2022	399	170/5	plan deposition


Revava settlement Expansion over the years

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:

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

726 dunums were confiscated to open the bypass roads numbers ( 505, 4765, 5506)
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”

About Revava colony:[2]

The colony of Revava started in 1991 on confiscated lands from Deir Istiya village. It totals 1540 dunums in area, of which 436 are the colony’s built up area. Revava has a total population of 703 .

The colony of Revava, since its establishment, formed an obstacle in the face of the Palestinian building movement in the area of Deir Istiya in addition to the confiscation of vast area of agricultural lands and the ban on sheep grazing in the periphery of Israeli colonies.