Violation: Issuing stop-work orders against four agricultural and residential structures
Date: 12/02/2014
Location: Barta'a village- Jenin governorate
Perpetrators: The Planning and Construction Committee
Victims: Three families consisting of 17 people including 10 children
Details:
The Planning and Construction Committee handed three families from Barta'a Ash Sharqiya stop-work orders against their residential and agricultural structures under the pretext of unlicensed construction in an area classified "C" according to Oslo Accords. The military orders were directed against a house and three pens located in northeast Barta'a that is isolated behind the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli occupation gave the owners a respite until March 08 to proceed with the procedures of getting a permit. The table gives information about the threatened structures:
|
Affected citizen |
Family |
Children |
Structure |
Area |
|
Basim Qabha |
7 |
4 |
Pen |
60 m2 |
|
Ayman Qabha |
5 |
3 |
Pen Inhabited house |
40 m2 120 m2 |
|
Ahed Qabha |
5 |
3 |
Pen |
60 m2 |
|
Total |
17 |
10 |
3 pens+ house |
|
Picture 1: A general view of Barta'a
In the 1948 war, the Israeli occupation seized vast areas of Barta'a. The truce line approved by the United Nations split the village to two parts. The eastern half was under the Jordanian authority. But despite that, east Barta'a (Ash Sharqiya) has not been spared from the Israeli occupation's harassment. Since 1967, the people of the village have been suffering from the occupation. The latter targets people on daily basis. Let alone, the residences that are either demolished or threatened of being demolished under the pretext of unlicensed construction in an area classified "C" according to Oslo Accords.
More than 36 structures were demolished and more than 170 structures are threatened of demolition. The Israelis claim that it is done on the pretext that the target structures are built in areas classified 'C'; however, the true purpose is evicting the Palestinian residents to empty the lands.
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