Notices to stop work and construction in citizens’ homes and facilities in the village of Al-Kharou’a, east of Yatta town, Hebron governorate

• Violation: notices of stoppage of work.
• Violation date: 24/07/2022.
• Location: Al-Kharou’a village – Yatta, Hebron Governorate.
• The perpetrator: the so-called civil administration of the occupation.
• Affected party: Citizens of the village of Al-Kharou’a.

The violation details:

On 24/7/2022, the Israeli occupation authorities issued work-stop notices of homes and agricultural facilities in the village of Al-Kharou’a in the eastern Yatta desert, south of Hebron governorate under the pretext that they were being built without licensing.

The citizens, owners of the threatened buildings, reported that a vehicle belonging to the Planning and Construction Department of the so-called Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank, accompanied by a military jeep raided their village. Upon arrival, the so-called building inspector signed the work-stop notices, stuck them to the walls of the threatened buildings and took pictures of them before leaving the site.

The notices came under the title “Notice to stop work – construction”, in which the occupation authorities ordered to stop all the construction works under the pretext of commencing them in area C and in the (Firing Zone – 917) without getting the proper licensing from the Israeli side.

The issued notices set the date of 10/8/2022 as a time for holding a session of the so-called Inspection Subcommittee, at its headquarters in the “Beit El” settlement  to discuss what they called (the demolition of the buildings or the restoration of the place to its previous state).

Table (1): Work-stop notices by owner’s name, No. of family members, area M2/capacity M3, type of structure, year of construction, No. of notice and No. of related photo:

Owner name	No. fam. Mem.	Of whom under 18	Area m2 / capacity m3	Type of structure	Year of construction	No. notice	No. related photo
Atwa Abed Odeh Taimat	10	8	150 M2	An inhabited house made of bricks and Tin sheets	2020	40900
Muhammed Youssef Odeh Kaabneh	8	6	50 M2	A house made of insulated tin sheets	2020	40901
			400 M2	Livestock barn and barrack	2020	40903
Haitham Youssef Odeh Kaabneh	8	6	50 M2	A house made of insulated tin sheets	2020	40902
Anwar Muhammad Suleiman Tibneh	10	6	130 M3	A cistern serving  7 dunums of land	2000	40906
			600 M2	A livestock barrack and surrounding wall	2015	40904
Ali Eid Ali Tibneh	8	3	120 M3	An agricultural cistern	2005	40905	N/A
Total	44	29	1250 M2 +25 M3

The affected citizen, Muhammad Youssef Kaabneh, 60 years old, indicated that the occupation authorities have escalated attacks against their homes and facilities since a long time. He explained that he was residing in the “Umm Qasra” area to the east of his current place of residence on a piece of land that he didn’t own, and because of that he decided two years ago to return to his original village of Khirbet Al-Kharou’a  and build on the land he owns . But, eventually, his insulated tin house, his son’s house and the livestock barn that he recently got built have become now under the threat of demolition at the hands of the occupation authorities.

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC