Violation: 5 land evacuation notifications in At Tawil and Lafjam.
Location: eastern ‘Aqraba – Nablus.
Date: January 17, 2012.
Perpetrators: the Israeli Occupation Army.
Victims: 5 families in the target area.
Details:
Israeli colonization policy continues unabated by taking over Palestinian properties and making them available for Israeli colinists coming from all around the world. On January 17, 2012, the Israeli Occupation Army handed five families in At Tawil and Lafjam military orders calling them to ‘evacuate their agricultural lands and return to the status quo’. The Israeli Army justified the orders by claiming that the lands are located within a ‘military zone’. A 7-day respite was given to the owners to return to the status quo or face the consequences.
Table 1: victims of the orders:
|
Victim
|
Location
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Family members
|
Children
|
Use
|
Notification
|
Respite
|
Order no.
|
Issued by
|
|
Mohammad abu Hammad
|
Lafjam
|
8
|
4
|
12-dunum wheat field
|
Eviction of a military zone
|
7 days
|
0039
|
The Israeli occupation Army
|
|
Wasfi abu Hammad
|
Lafjam
|
9
|
5
|
20-dunum wheat field
|
Eviction of a military zone
|
7 days
|
0041
|
The Israeli occupation Army
|
|
Ghallab abu Hammad
|
Lafjam
|
9
|
7
|
10-dunum wheat field
|
Eviction of a military zone
|
7 days
|
0040
|
The Israeli occupation Army
|
|
Basel bani Jaber
|
At Tawil
|
7
|
5
|
24-m2 shed
|
Demolition
|
A hearing session on 29/1/2012
|
149637
|
The Israeli occupation Army
|
|
Abdul Fattah bani Jaber
|
At Tawil
|
5
|
3
|
12-m2- shed
|
Stop work
|
3 days
|
307671
|
The Israeli occupation Army
|
|
Total
|
38
|
24
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Source: field observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations Unit – LRC
At Tawil – an overview:
At Tawil is part of Aqraba village; it is 1.5 km away from Aqraba residential area. At Tawil is full of Islamic and Roman ruins and it has a number of old wells. Its mild climate seemed to attract people over the centuries.
Picture 3: overlooking At Tawil
At Tawil total area is around 30,000 dunums, including 8,000 dunums of arid lands unsuitable for cultivation as well as 15,000 dunums that are used for seasonal crops and 7000 dunums that have been captured by the Israelis. The area is subject to colonial activity presented in Jetit colony (established in 1973; its total area is 1720 dunums and inhabited by 191 colonists), Ma’ale Afraym (established in 1970; its total area is 4778 dunums and inhabited by 1423 colonists), Itmar colony (established in 1984; its total area is 7189 dunums and inhabited by 651 colonists). It’s worth mentioning that At Tawil is inhabited by around 500 Palestinians who depend largely on agriculture and herding in their living.
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
The Land Research Center
LRC
