Violation: serving stop-work orders
Location: Ein Al-Beida village-Tubas
Date: July 14, 2015
Perpetrators: Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration
Victims: number of agricultural families from the village
Details:
The Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration accompanied by a patrol from the Israeli occupation army on July 14, 2015 raided the village of Ein Al-Beida and delivered stop-work orders on structures (3 residences and 4 barns) under the claim of unlicensed construction within area classified C according to Oslo Accords.
According to the military orders, the notified owners were given a deadline until August 10, 2015 to complete all licensing procedures. This comes in time with the hearing session of the Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration in the Israeli court of Beit El to consider the status of the notified structures.
Notifying a water pool:
The Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration delivered the village council of Ein Al-Beida a stop work order on a water pool (500m3). Noteworthy, the pool was implemented by Palestine Ministry of Agriculture with funds from the UNDP to serve around 1000 dunums planted with vegetables and irrigated crops.
The chairman of Ein Al-Beida village Moustafa Sawafata told a researcher from Land Research Center the following:
“The village suffers from water scarcity despite being floating on water current. This will eventually affect the agricultural sector of the area (4000 dunums of vegetables)”.
It should be marked that most of the village’s groundwater is founded in shallow cisterns. There are only two licensed cisterns in the village but closed by the occupation. People are now forced to buy water from the Israeli company of Mikrot, which steals the water from the confiscated resources of the village. The following table shows information about the damage resulted due to the orders:
|
Affected citizen |
Family |
Minors |
No. of sheep |
No. of order |
Notified structure |
Photo |
Remarks |
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|
Residence |
Barn |
Others |
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|
Sa’id Masa’id |
8 |
5 |
69 cows |
One story house (110m2)+ unroofed room (45m2) |
Cows barn (800m2) |
Fodder storehouse (480m2) |
First time notified with stop-work |
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|
Zeyad Sawafta |
11 |
6 |
40 sheep |
Tent (90m2) |
Barn (90m2) |
— |
First time notified with stop-work |
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|
Zeyad Fuqha |
8 |
4 |
10 sheep +12 cows |
— |
Barrack(300m2) |
— |
First time notified with stop-work |
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|
Ein Al-Beida village council |
— |
— |
— |
|
|
Water pool (500m3) |
The pool serves 1000 agricultural dunums |
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|
Total |
27 |
15 |
50sheep+ 81 cows |
|
3 residences |
3 brans |
A storehouse and water pool |
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Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2105
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
