- Violation: serving stop-work orders
- Location: Al-Marajim hamlet
- Date: January 10, 2016
- Perpetrators: Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration
- Victims: three Palestinian families
Details:
A massive force from the Israeli occupation army accompanied by a staff from the Civil Administration raided on January 10, 2016 Al-Marajim hamlet, east Duma village in Nablus and delivered three families stop-work orders on their structures claiming them "unlicensed construction"
According to the military order, the affected owners were given a deadline until February 03, 2016 to complete all licensing procedures and documents to be later submitted to Beit El court to consider the legal status of the notified structures.
Photo 1: a view of the hamlet
The Sheikh of the hamlet, Mohammad Dawabshih told Land Research Center the following: " Al-Marajim hamlet is one of the communities the occupation doesn’t recognize in area classified "C". All of the hamlet's structures are notified either of stop-work or demolition. Despite that residents apply for building permits and license, the occupation turns them down in a step to force the inhabitants to move out of their hamlet". The following table shows information about the damage resulted due to the orders:
Affected citizen |
Family |
Minors |
Aream2 |
No. of order |
Nature of struture |
Hasan Dawabshih |
6 |
2 |
60 |
Residential room (metal slaps and cement blocks) |
|
Imran Dawabshih |
8 |
5 |
75 |
Residential room (metal slaps and cement blocks) |
|
Jamal Al-Tawail |
5 |
2 |
(9+45)
|
Mini market+ room |
|
Total |
19 |
9 |
189 |
|
Three rooms and a mini market |
Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2016
It should be marked that Al-Marajim hamlet is located 4km to the east of Duma village; it is founded between two mountains. Administratively, the hamlet follows Duma village despite being relative to Talfit village, south Nablus.
The hamlets populates 420 people on a total land area of 13,000 dunums. Residents of the hamlet mostly depend on the agriculture and livestock as sources of income.
Al-Marajim ,as other hamlets in the southern suburbs of Nablus, is a targeted of displacement by the occupation. Most of the simple houses of the hamlet (metal slaps and cement blocks) are notified either of stop-work or demolition.
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