Final demolition order targets a Coffee Shop in Burqa village / Ramallah

• Violation: Final demolition order targets a Coffee Shop.
• Location: Burqa village / Ramallah governorate.
• Date: June 16^th 2020.
• Perpetrator: The Israeli Occupation civil administration.
• Victims: Citizen Ameer Barakat.

Description:

Tuesday June 16^th 2020, the Israeli occupation issued a final demolition order on a coffee shop that belongs to Ameer Barakat , on the pretext of building without licenses.

The demolition order was numbered (61233) and orders the immediate stoppage of construction works within 7 days, in case the owner breached the deadline, the occupation forces will implement the operation and make him pay the costs.

Demolition order 61233 targets a coffee shop belongs to Baraka

Photo 1: the targeted Coffee Shop

Reportedly, the targeted coffee shop is 500 m away from bypass 60 , it is built of bricks and a “Zinc” ceiling, and has a total area of 70 m².

Ameer Barakat told LRC:

“August 2018, I started constructing a coffee shop on a plot I rented east Burqa , in November the same year I received a halt of work notice on the Coffee Shop on the pretext of building without licenses in C area , I applied for a license and hired a lawyer , but the occupation authorities denied my application , and issued a final demolition order , the coffee shop is the only source of income for my family of 4 (2 children).”

 About Burqa:[1]

12 km north Nablus city, Burqa is surrounded by the Israeli illegal colony “Homesh” (north), Ramin and Al-Masa’adeyeh villages (west) , Beit Amrin (east) and Sabastiya (south).

Burqa has a population of (4152) people in 2017.

Burqa has a total space of 18174 dunums, 506 of them are the town’s built-up area.

The Israeli occupation confiscated (1047) dunums from Burqa’s lands to establish “Homesh” settlement in 1980, the Israeli government claim that “Homesh” is evicted but that is not the truth,the settlement is inhabited by radical settlers who implemented several attacks against villagers of Burqa.

Oslo conventions divided Burqa into:

• A area: (4796) dunums.
• B area: (5131) dunums.
• C area: (8247) dunums.

[1] GIS-LRC