Stop-work orders for two houses in Idhna

Violation: Issuing two stop-work notices
Date: 05/03/2014
Location: Khallet Ibrahim- Idhna/ Hebron governorate
Perpetrators: The Civil Administration of the Israeli occupation
Victims: Wisam and Sayil Islimiya

Details:

On March 05, 2014, the Israeli occupation authorities handed two citizens from Idhna, west of Hebron,  stop-work orders for their residences under the pretext of  unlicensed construction.

Wisam Islimiya (28) told an LRC observer that : "A patrol of the Israeli army accompanying officers of the Civil Administration passed by my house and my cousin's where they served us stop-work orders."

Islimiya pointed out that his house is already inhabited. In fact, the order was sent to him on the first day he and his family moved in to the house while his cousin's is still under construction.

The orders asked for immediate halt of any construction work and set the date of 24/04/2014 for the meeting of the central inspection subcommittee in Beit El court to consider whether to demolish the residence or keep it at its status quo with removing all additions.

It should be marked that these two houses are located in Khallet Ibrahim, west of Idhna.  Wisam and Sayil are preparing all the required documents to object the Israeli orders.

The table gives information about the victims:

Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations Team- LRC.

About Idhna:

It is 18km west of Hebron. According to statistics conducted in 2007, Idhna is inhabited by 19,012 people. It has a total area of 26,152 dunums, 2653 of which are built-up area of the village.

The Israeli occupation confiscated 107 dunums of Idhna for the Apartheid Wall. Let alone that 3,511 dunums were isolated as a result of the construction of the wall. Besides, bypass number 35 -that is 4,674 meters long- confiscated more than 467 dunums of the village lands.

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