Violation: Orders to stop construction in 3 structures
Date: 02/09/2013
Location: Ma’la- Adh Dhahiriya town- Hebron governorate
Perpetrators: The Civil Administration of the Israeli occupation
Victims: Two families
Details:
On 02/09/2013, the Israeli occupation authorities sent stop-work-and-construction orders for three inhabited structures in Ma’la, east of Adh Dhahiriya. The affected citizens attested that officers of the Civil Administration along with a military vehicle raided the eastern part of the town and delivered the stop-work orders to them under the pretext of not having the required permits. The orders set (30/09/2013) as a date for the Inspection Subcommittee meeting in Beit El colony in order to consider "demolishing the houses or retaining them to their previous status."
The orders also noted that the affected citizens could go to the Inspection Subcommittee and apply for a permit or show the receipt of a permit application. But this action may not guarantee their having a permit.
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Pictures A, B: Models of the orders
The table gives information about the affected citizens whose houses are threatened:
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No.
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Name
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Family
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Children
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Area (m2)
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Status of structure
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Stories
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Year of construction
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Pic
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1
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Fakhri Abu Sharkh
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17
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8
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1000
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inhabited
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4
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2000 – 2013
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2
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Jameel Al-Tell
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9
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7
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150
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inhabited
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2
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2000
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3
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Amjad Abu Sharkh
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5
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3
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200
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inhabited
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2
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2006
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Total
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31
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18
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1350
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*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).
The affected citizens compiled required papers to object the resolutions of the Israeli occupation and went to "Saint Eve" institution to defend their houses, noting that they do not expect the Israeli authorities would grant them construction permits. Fakhri Abu- Sharkh expressed his concern over his 4-storey house especially that the Israeli occupation demolished another house of his back in 1989 under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The demolished house was 440 m2 in area and had two stories. He had to move to his father’s house in Adh Dhahiriya until he built a new (the now threatened) house in 2000.
Summary about Adh Dhahiriya:
25 km away from Hebron, Adh Dhahiriya has a total area of 63, 390 dunums, 4437 of which are built-up area. According to a 2007 consensus, it has a population of 28, 776 people. The Israeli occupation confiscated (1412) dunums for the benefit of:
- Israeli colonies which devoured 427 dunums of Adh Dhahiriya lands. The colonies are : First, Tene/ Maale Omarim which was built in 1982 and stole 55.5 dunums and has a population of 563 colonists. The second is Shima which devoured 372 dunums and was built in 1985. 357 colonists live in Shima colony.
- Bypasses that stole 859 dunums, and they are: bypass ’60 and bypass ‘317.
- The Apartheid Wall which devoured 126 dunums and isolated 213 dunums of Adh Dhahiriya lands
