Location: north eastern part of Hijja.
Date: May 30, 2012.
Perpetrators: the Inspection Subcommittee.
Victims: Batta and Baslat families.
Details:
On May 30, 2012, officers of the so-called Inspection Subcommittee broke into Hijja village and handed military orders to owners of newly-built residences on the pretext of unlicensed construction. The orders set June 17, 2012 as the date of the hearing session to be held in Beit El Military Court to decide on the fate of the residences.
Table: targeted structures:
Victim | Area (m2) | Family members | Children | structure |
Bassam Batta | 180 | 7 | 4 | Residential (one storey and a basement) |
Jaber Basalat | 90 | 2 | 0 | residential |
Total | 270 | 9 | 4 |
*source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations Team – LRC
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It must be noted that the number of notified structures in the village since 2004 has reached 49; ten had been already demolished in addition to others which were dismantled by the owners. Hijja suffers from the limited area for construction and expansion as the village master plan of 1994 concise 822 dunums only.
According to the villagers, the area is too small to handle the natural growth of population which forced them to expand to areas classified ‘C’ according to Oslo. Hijja is located to the east of Qalqiliya. Its total area is 11718 dunums including 337 dunums of built up area inhabited by 2148 people. Villagers depend mostly on agriculture and labor work in their living.
