- Violation: new colonial outpost.
- Location: An-Nabi Saleh village / north Ramallah.
- Date: 01/09/2019.
- Perpetrators: settlers of “Halmish”.
- Victims: People of north Ramallah area.
Description:
September 2nd 2019 , settlers from “Halmish” settlement which is built on confiscated lands from Deir Nitham, An-Nabi Saleh and Umm Safa were seen building a new outpost on 7 dunums of a plot allocated as “Forests area” and located about 300 m south east “Halmish” . Noteworthy, Palestinians were denied access to the area since 15 years, now settlers were approved accessing the area and build an outpost.
Reportedly , settlers put 7 caravans at the location and opened a road that connects them to the closest bypass road.
Mr. Naji At-Tamimi told LRC the following:
“We noticed presence of settlers on surrounding agricultural and forest areas that surround An-Nabi Saleh village , which worries us , especially that there are Israeli schemes since the 80s targeting hundreds of forests dunums in the area that the occupation claims are an Israeli state property.
At-Tamimi assertd: Technically, this step will affect the northern suburbs of Ramallah, through confiscating the area’s forest where people of the village enjoy the view and the fresh air, in addition to creating a block between Palestinian communities, noteworthy , there are 1500 dunums of forests in the area , that the occupation is working day and night to take over them.”
An-Nabi Salih village:[1]
25 km north west Ramallah, An-Nabi Salih is surrounded by Kafr Ein (north), Bani Zaid Al-Gharbiya (west) , Deir As-Sudabn and Umm Safa (east) and Deir Nitham (south) – Halmish settlement.
An-Nabi Salih has a total population of 522 people , according to 2017 census.
An-Nabi Salih has a total area of 2,340 dunums, of which 203 dunums are a built up area for the village.
The occupation confiscated 299 dunums for the following purposes:
- “Halmish” settlement devoured 13 dunums of the town lands , it was established in 2018 and inhabited by 1254 settlers.
- Bypass road 465 eat up 162 dunums.
- Israeli military camps devoured 124 dunums.
Oslo convention divided the town lands as the following:
- A area : 84 dunums.
- B area: 596 dunums.
- C area : 1660 dunums.
[1] GIS-LRC
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