- Violation: Demolition of two under construction houses.
- Location: Beit Dajan / Nablus Governorate.
- Date: May 9th 2022.
- Perpetrator: The Israeli Civil administration
- Victims: Two Abu Halwan families.
Description:
Monday may 9th 2022, about 6:00 am, a massive army force accompanied by a vehicle from the building and organization department raided Beit Dajan village east Nablus, and arrived to Jeb An-Nemr location south the village, and demolished two under construction houses belong to citizens ‘Adel Abu Halwan and ‘Imad Abu Halwan on the pretext of building without a license in area classified “C” according to Oslo accords.
Affected citizen ‘Adel Abu Halwan (49 years, 6 members) told LRC:
“A massive army force that composes of 8 military vehicles full of troops, 4 large caterpillar excavators raided the house , and carried out the demolition.
His house consists of two floors , each one has an area of (270 m2) built since last year of bricks and cement . In addition, the occupation authorities demolished a cement reservoir (60 m3) built nearby the house.”
Photo 1: House of citizen ‘Adel Abu Halwan before the demolition
Photo 2: The remains of ‘Adel Abu Halwan house
The Occupation authorities demolished house of citizen ‘Imad Abu Halwan (40 years and his family of 6) , consists of two floors , built of bricks and cement and was under construction.
The affected citizen ‘Adel Abu Halwan told LRC:
“In January 12th 2022, the occupation authorities served a notice entitled “Removal of a new building” for his house and his neighbor’s house , that ordered to demolish the houses on the pretext of building without a license , and threatened to demolish the structure within 96 hours after issuing the notices in reference to military order (1797) in 2018.”
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Demolition orders numbers (21453,21452) which targeted citizens houses
Abu Halwan pointed out that he hired a lawyer to object on the notices and defend his home and his neighbor’s home, but the occupation forces refused legal objections , and carried out the demolition , noting that the construction costs amounted to 400 thousand shekels , and the costs of building his neighbor’s house amounts to 250 thousand shekels.
Photo 3: House of citizen ‘Imad Abu Halwan before the demolition
Photo 4: The remains of citizens ‘Imad Abu Halwan house
He also said that he went to the village council , and received instructions to prepare a legal file , noting that the village council is receiving legal support from Land Research Center , in addition to workshops organized under Supporting Palestinian Land and Housing rights project to raise awareness on legal defense techniques.
Beit Dajan village:[1]
Beit Dajan is located 13 km to the east of Nablus; its total area is 44100 dunums including 360 dunums of built up area inhabited by 758 pople (207 census) in addition to 12500 dunums that are related to al-Ghoor area . A large part of the village lands were confiscated for the construction of the colony of Mehola in 1973.
Beit Dajan is surrounded by a number of villages namely (Salem, Deir al-Hatab, Talluza, Beit Furik, Ghoor el-Far’a ) and depends on grains plantation and fruitful trees such like olive, figs and almond.
[1] GIS-LRC
The Land Research Center
LRC
