The Occupation Serves Notices to Several Structures in Jalboun village / Jenin governorate

• Violation: Demolition and halt of work notices.
• Location: Jalboun village / Jenin governorate.
• Date: June 21^st 2022.
• Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration.
• Victims: 9 Palestinian families.

Description:

In June 21^st 2022 , The Israeli Occupation forces accompanied by the building inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration raided Jalboun Village east Jenin , in natural blocks (9,10,12) of the village lands , and targeted 9 residences , one of the structures received demolition and removal on the pretext of building without a license , the notice was issued in reference to military order (1797) which gives the owner only four days to remove the building, the targeted house belongs to citizen Khalid Abu Ar-Rab.

Other eight buildings received halt of work notices, on the pretext of building without a license , among the targeted houses , seven are inhabited , and one of them is under construction , most of the houses are in the northern and western sides of the villages.

According to the notices, the occupation sat July 6^th 2022 , as the date of the building and organization session in Beit El military court to decide the fate of the structure.

The following table shows more information about the targeted structures:

Affected citizen	Family members			Area m2	The targeted facility	Notice number	Photo
	Males	Females	children
Khalid Abu Ar-Rab	1	1	0	200	Under construction house / two-floors	21692
Ahmed Abu Ar-Rab	4	2	2	150	An inhabited house – one floor	40759
Mahmoud Abu Ar-Rab	3	2	1	200	An inhabited house – two floors	40758
Hussain Abu Ar-Rab	5	4	3	300	An inhabited house – one floor and a basement	40757
Mohammed Abu Ar-Rab	3	6	5	260	An inhabited house – one floor and a basement	40754
Rasheed Abu Ar-Rab	4	2	0	200	An inhabited house – one floor and a basement	40753
Farhan Abu Ar-Rab	2	3	3	200	An inhabited house – one floor and a basement	40752
‘Ali Abu Ar-Rab	1	3	2	160	One floor house – under construction	40751
Ameer Abu Saif	2	5	3	260	two floors house =	40750
Total	25	28	19	1930

 Source: Firsthand field observation – Israeli Violations monitoring section – Land Research Center – June 2022

Mr.Rasheed Abu Ar-Rab (63)one of the victims told LRC:

“I own a house located west the village, that have been inhabited for more than 40 years, and surrounded by a number of houses, last summer I rehabilitated the house, in order to protect its structure from humidity effects, I was shocked when I received the notice.”

Citizen Khalid Abu Ar-Rab said that this violation is a part of the occupation’s organized crime, his house is located only 120 m away from the Annexation and Expansion wall, and was completing it. Since the last summer, I started building the house of 2 floors, I am getting married next September and preparing my house to be a home for the family, but the occupation however did not give me any chance to object on the demolition notice, noteworthy, the construction of the house so far cost about 210 thousand shekels.

 About Jalboun:[1]

12 kilometer north east of Jenin, Jalboun is surrounded by Al Mughayyir and Fuqua (north),  Al Mughayyir (south), Deir Abu Daef (west).

Jalboun has a population of 3400 people according to statistics conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics  in 2017. It has a total area of 9,308 of which 590 dunums are a built-up area of the village. 

The Israeli occupation devoured more than 1430 dunums of the lands of the village for the colonies and the Apartheid Wall. It is worth knowing that colonies of Gilboa and King Joshua were built on the international truce line, i.e. on Jalbun lands occupied in the 1948 war.  

[1] GIS-LRC