Stop-work orders for a house and sheds in Idhna

Violation: Issuance of stop-work (stop-construction) orders
Location: Beit Alban- Idhna/ Hebron governorate
Date: 16/02/2014
Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration
Victims: People of Abu Ghahisha family

Details:

On February 16, the Israeli occupation authorities served stop-work (construction) orders on a house and sheds to people in Beit Alban, west of Idhna in the governorate of Hebron.

Officers of the Civil Administration accompanied by a force of the Israeli army broke into the area of Beit Alban where they handed the stop-work orders on the structures under the pretext of lacking a building permit. The orders asked for immediate halt of any construction work and set February 27 as a date for a meeting of the Inspection Sub-committee to be held in Beit El court to discuss whether to demolish the structures or return them to their previous status.

The targeted structures are a 2-storey house inhabited by the family of Abu Ghahisha as well as sheds made of metal slabs and used for junk recycling, which is the profession of the family. The table gives more details about the threatened structures:

Name	Family	Structure	Area/ m2	Year of construction	Order
Arafat Abu Ghahisha	8	Shed	150	2000	A
Arafat Abu Ghahisha	8	Shed	250	2000	A
Sufian Abu Ghahisha	2	Shed	800	2010	B
Mahmoud Abu Ghahisha	5	House	200	2010	C
		Shed	200	2008
		Shed	150	2008