Stop-work orders on 12 residences in the village of Khrintha in Ramallah

• Violation:  serving 12 stop-work orders
• Date:  22/02/2015
• Location:  Ramallah
• Perpetrators: Israel Planning Committee
• Victims:  12 Palestinian families

Details:

A massive force from the Israeli occupation army accompanied by the Planning Committee on January 22, 2014 raided the village of Khribtha Bani Harith, northwest Ramallah and handed twelve Palestinian families out stop-work orders on their residences claiming them built without a permit within area classified C according to Oslo Accords.

The military orders gave the structures owners a deadline until February 02, 2014 to complete all licensing procedures. This comes in time with the hearing session of the Planning and Construction Committee in the court of Beit El to consider the status of the notified structures.

It should be marked, and according to a field observation conducted by Land Research Center, that the notified residences are only few meters away from the master plan of the village. The  Orders were served intensely in the area known as al-Boghom and al-Sarab; some of the notified houses were even reported inside the borders of the village's master plan. The following table shows information about the notified structures:

Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations, Land Research Center , 2015

It should be marked that the village of Khribtha Bani Harith is located 17km northwest Ramallah governorate; the village has total population of 3500 people and  total area is 7200 dunums (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters ) of which 300 dunums are Khribtha's built-up area. An area of 1500 dumums was confiscated under the route of the apartheid wall and behind it as well.

The village is edged by Deir Ammar and Jamala villages from the north, Kfar Ni'ma and Bil'in from the south, Ras Karkar from the east and Deir Qaddis from the west.

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