- Violation: Halt of Work Notices.
- Location: Haris Village / Salfit Governorate.
- Date: August 16th 2021.
- Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration.
- Victims: 10 families from the village.
Description:
Monday, August 16th 2021, the occupation authorities served a halt of work notice on the pretext of building without a license, In Haris Village north Salfit Governorate.
Monday morning, the Israeli Civil Administration served Halt of Work military orders to 10 families.
The military orders targeted the southern and eastern parts of the village, both of the locations became the only escape for people of the village, and today the occupation launches a campaign that limits construction activities at the area.
The notices sat September 1st 2021, as the date of the subcommittee session in Beit El military court to decide “Demolishing the structure or returning it to its previous status”. The following table shows more information about the targeted structures:
Affected Citizen |
Family members |
Area m2 |
The targeted facility |
Military order number |
photo |
Hisham Sultan |
6 |
180 |
Under construction house (one floor and a basement) |
||
Nidal Klaib |
11 |
150 |
Under Construction House (one floor) |
||
Sami Sultan |
5 |
200 |
Building (stores + apartment) under construction |
||
Khalid Qassim |
3 |
100 |
Under Construction house without a ceiling + 150 m road |
||
Suliman Shamlawi |
4 |
80 |
One-floor house |
||
Saleem Shamlawi |
7 |
130 |
One-floor under construction house + a wall |
||
Ahmed Shamlawi |
2 |
130 |
One-floor under construction house + a wall |
||
Maher Shamlawi |
5 |
140 |
One-floor house |
||
Ahmed Shamlawi |
3 |
140 |
One-floor under construction house |
||
Nassir Sultan |
7 |
120 |
One-floor under construction house |
N\A |
|
Total |
54 |
1370 |
10 |
|
|
Source: Israeli Violations Monitoring Section – Land Research Center, August 2021
More than 45 houses and Facilities in Haris received Halt of Work notices, while Revava colony is expanding quickly on the village lands.
About Haris:[1]
7 km to the northwest of Salfit governorate, Haris is located with a total land area of 8769 dunum, of which 190 dunums are the village’s built-up area. Haris is surrounded by the villages of Deir Istiya from the north, Kifl Haris from the east, Kfar ad-Dik and Bruqin from the southwest and Qarawat Bani Hassan from the west.
It has a total population of 3740 people according to the census of Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for 2009. Those people hail from the following families: Abu Atta, Dawoud, Salamih, Sultan, Shihada, Souf, Faz’, Awwad, Qasim, and Klaib. The Israeli occupation confiscated 3631 dunums from the village as follows :
- Israeli colonies confiscated 2672 dunums as detailed in the below table
colony |
Year of establishment |
Confiscated area\dunum |
Number of colonists |
Kiryat Netafim |
1982 |
188 |
384 |
Revava |
1991 |
269 |
703 |
Burkan |
1981 |
177 |
1207 |
Burkan Industrial |
1981 |
1346 |
— |
Ariel Industrial |
— |
692 |
— |
Total |
|
2672 |
2294 |
- 726 dunums were confiscated to open the bypass roads numbers ( 505, 4765, 5506)
- The apartheid wall confiscated 233 dunums for its establishment. Upon its completion, the wall will isolate 7135 dunums
According to Oslo Accords, the lands of Haris are classified as follows:
- 631 dunums are classified as area “B”
- 7815 dunums are classified as area “C”
[1] GIS-LRC
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