- Violations: Serving Halt of work military orders on agricultural and residential structures.
- Locations: Khirbet Ras Al-Ahmar/ Tubas governorate.
- Date: 12/03/2019.
- Perpetrator: The so called Israeli occupation building and organizing committee.
- Victims: 5 Palestinian from Al-Odeh family.
Description:
The Israeli occupation troops and an officer from the Israeli building and organizing committee raided Khirbet Ar-Ras Al-Ahmar in the Jordan Valley area , and served halt of work and construction military order to 5 families on the pretext of building before getting proper licenses from the occupation in area C according to Oslo conventions.
The military order set 10 of April as the building and organizing session in “Beit El” to decide the fate of the structures.
The following table shows more information about the threatened structures:
|
Affected citizen |
No. of facilities |
Targeted facilities |
Military order no. |
|
|
residence |
Agricultural tent |
|||
|
Jamil Bani Odeh |
5
|
-residential tent 45 m2 – residential tent 16 m2 A bathroom |
A tent used as a barn 60 m2
A barn 110 m2 |
206522 |
|
‘Afo Odeh |
4 |
Residential tent 40 m2
A kitchen |
A tent used as a barn 45 m2 A barn 60m2 |
206525 |
|
Alam Odeh |
5 |
Residential tent 60 m2
Kitchen
Bathroom
|
A tent used as a barn 60 m2 A barn 90 m2 |
206521 |
|
Mohammad Odeh |
6 |
Residential tent 60 m2
Residential tent 45 m2
Kitchen |
A tent used as a barn 90 m2
A barn 110 m2
A barn that for feeding 16 m2 |
206523 |
|
Ali Bane Odeh |
6 |
Residential tent 60 m2
Residential tent 60 m2
Kitchen |
2 tents used as a cattle barn 45 m2
A barn 90 m2 |
206524 |
|
total |
26 |
|
|
|
Khirbet ar- Ras al Ahmar, like other Bedouin communities, has been a target for the Israeli occupation that seeks to take over the Jordan Valley and Judaize it, just like what it is doing in Jerusalem, after kicking the indigenous inhabitants out. Ar-Ras al Ahmar, located 8 kilometers southeast of Tubas in the north part of the Jordan Valley, is area C according to Oslo Accords (Israel maintains full security and administrative control). It has a total area of 36 dunums and is inhabited by 137 people (17 Bedouin families) whose agricultural and residential structures are under constant threat of demolition. Any citizen who wants to add a simple structure or supplement to his residence is guaranteed of being targeted by the Israeli occupation army with either demolition order or eviction under the pretext of being in an Israeli-declared closed military zone. The area was and still is considered a home for the Bedouin families that have been inhabiting it for tenths of years and leading a normal life before the 1967 Israeli occupation that wants to deny them that and to kick them out.
Photos 1-7: the targeted structures
Location Map
International Conventions and agreements pertaining to house and residents demolition:
Article 147 of Geneva fourth convention : extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly. ( it is considered a serious violation of the convention)
Article 53 of Geneva fourth convention that forbids destroying properties : Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, or to the State, or to other public authorities, or to social or co-operative organizations, is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.
Article 33 of Geneva fourth convention: No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed.
Article 32 of Hague convention 1907 part g: To destroy or seize the enemy’s property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war.
Article 17 of Universal declaration of human rights 10 –Dec- 1948: No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
