Stop-work notices sent to 6 Palestinian families

Stop-work notices sent to 6 Palestinian families
Violation: Serving 6 families with stop-construction orders
Date: 02/01/2014
Location: Rujeib village- Nablus governorate
Victims: 6 Palestinian families comprising 31 people including 17 children
Perpetrators: The Israeli occupation army

Details:

On January 02, 2014, the Building Inspection Committee of the Civil Administration served 6 Palestinian families from Rujeib, east of Nablus, stop-work orders for their residential structures on the grounds of unlicensed construction in an area classified "C" according to Oslo Accords.

It should be marked that some of the targeted houses were already built five years ago but the Israeli occupation claims they are illegal structures.

The Committee, according to the military orders, gave the residents a respite till January 19, 2014 as a final date to finish with the procedures of issuing a building permit. The same date was set for the Planning and Construction Committee meeting in Beit El court to consider the status of the threatened structures.

The table gives information about the families affected by the last stop-work notices in Rujeib:

Citizen	Family	Children	Status of the structure	Area (m2)	Picture
Muhammad Dweikat	4	2	inhabited	120	1
Mujahed Dweikat	7	4	inhabited	180	2
Ibrahim Shihada	5	3	inhabited	100	3
Muhammad Dweikat	8	5	Under construction	160	4
Rida Adnan Halabi	4	2	inhabited	120	5
Ahmad Halabi	3	1	inhabited	120	6
	31	17

According to Rujeib village council, there have been stop-work orders for 18 houses in the village since 2008.

Rujeib:

Located 4km southeast of Nablus, Rujeib is surrounded by Balata Camp(north), Kafr Qalil and Mount Gerizim (west), Beit Furik and Beit Dajan (east), Huwara and 'Awarta (south). It has a total area of 4917 dunums, 724 of which are built-up area of the village. The Israeli occupation confiscated 133 dunums from the village lands for:

Itamar colony which was built on part of Rujeib lands in 1984. The colony is inhabited by 557 colonists and devoured 133 dunums of the village.
Besides, bypass roads number 60 and 557 confiscated more than 823 dunums of the village lands.

According to Oslo Accords, only 30% of Rujeib lands is under Area B (PA is in charge of civil matters with Israel responsible for security) while 70% is under Area C (Israel maintains full security and administrative control). Here are the area in dunums: