The occupation notifies four agricultural pools of Stop-Work in Beit Ummar town

Violation: Stop-Work orders on water pools
Location: Beit Ummar town- Hebron
Date: January 05, 2016
Perpetrators: Israeli Occupation Forces and Civil Administration
Victims: farmers from the town

Details:

The Israeli occupation authorities notified on January 05, 0216 four agricultural pools of Stop-Work on the claim of "Unlicensed Construction" in the Hebron town of Beit Ummar. Famers affirmed that a staff from Israel Civil Administration raided the area of Wad Al-Arab, east Beit Ummar and hanged the orders on the pools.

It should be marked that the orders stated the halt of construction works and assigned January 21, 2016 as a hearing session for the Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration in the Israeli Court of Beit El colony to consider the legal status of the notified structures.

It is reported that the pools are constructed above the ground with a volume of 400m3 for each to collect water that will be later used for agricultural ends. The project of pools was implemented by Union of Agricultural Work Committee UAWC and Palestinian Hydrology Group.

The following table shows information about the affected owners and structures:

No.	Famer	Irrigated areadunum	No. of order	Photo of pool
1	Wahid Abu Maria	8	200672	1
2	Ghassan Breighith	20	200670	2
3	Jamil Abu Maria	6	200673	3
4	Khalid Breighith	6	200669	4
Total		40

Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2106

It should be marked that the town of Beit Ummar has been lately targeted by the occupation through enforcing closures and a fence at its entrance to hinder residents' movement. Not only, residents themselves in addition to structures are targeted .

About Beit Ummar:

It is located 12 km to Hebron city. The village's total area is 21,285 dunums , of which 1,375 dunums are considered the built-up area; around 13, 548 people inhabit Beit Ummar.

The Israeli occupation authorities confiscated 560 dunums from Beit Ummar for the favor of the bypass road no.60. The occupation also confiscated 1,216 dunums for the favor of the following colonies:

Colony	Year of establishment	Dunums confiscated from Beit Ummar	Built-up areadunums	No. of colonists
Karmei Zur	1984	179	289	623
Migdal Oz	1977	682	10764	298
Kfar Etzion	1976	1806	923.5	404
Efrat	1976	98.6	206306	7037
Alon Shevut	1971	237.8	934	3146
Total		1216	5286.5	11508