Violation: two stop work orders served on residences
Date: 27/11/2013
Location: Haris village
Perpetrators: the Inspection Sub-Committee of the Civil Administration
Victims: two families from the village
Details:
On November 27th 2013, the Inspection Sub-Committee of the Civil Administration accompanied by the Israeli army raided the village of Haris and served two military stop work orders on two houses in the area known as "Um al-Kuhuf', south of the village. This act came under the pretext of unlicensed construction within area classified C according to Oslo Accords.
According to the military orders, the occupation gave the owners of the residences a deadline until 19/11/2013, which is the time of the Planning Committee session in Beit El court to consider the status of the structures. The following table show information about the targeted houses:
|
Affected citizen |
Family |
Minors |
No. of order |
Status |
Area |
Photo |
|
Hasan Suf |
6 |
4 |
Inhabited |
120 m2 |
||
|
Hammam Salamih |
2 |
0 |
Under construction |
100 m2 |
||
|
Total |
8 |
4 |
|
|
|
Source: field observation- Monitoring Israeli Violations Department- Land Research Center
It should be indicated that the village of Haris has been and is still a victim of the Israeli occupation, which confiscated the land and displaced indigenous for the favor of colonization and its advancement in the West Bank.
More than 34 stop work orders were served on structures at Haris village under the pretext of unlicensed construction within area classified C according to Oslo Accords. As a result, 7 residential and industrial structures were demolished for the same reason.
About Haris:
It is located to the northwest of Salfit governorate (7km away from it) with a total land area of 8769 dunum, of which 190 is the built-up area. The village is surrounded by the villages of Deir Istiya from the north, Kifl Haris from the east, Kfar ad-Deek and Bruqin from the southwest and Qarawat Bani Hassan from the west.
Haris has a total population of 3740 people according to the census of Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for 2009. Those people relate to the following families: Abu Atta, Dawoud, Salamih, Sultan, Shihada, Souf, Faz', Awwad, Qasim, and Klaib.
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
