Halt of Work Notices for Houses in Ar-Ramadeen community / South Qalqilya

• Violation: Halt of work and construction notice.
• Location:  Arab Ar-Ramadeen Aj-Janoubi – Habla town / Qalqilya governorate.
• Date: August 9^th 2021.
• Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration
• Victims: 3 families from the Bedouin community.

Description:

Arab Ar-Ramadeen Aj-Janoubi community is targeted by Israeli daily violations probably due to the fact that Alfei menashe colony is built only few meters away from the community. The Occupation government prohibit any developmental project at the community, and notifies any building that get under renovations.

The Occupation restricted residents’ movement through military gate “109” near bypass “5” which had become the only entrance for the community, the gate is under the occupation forces’ 24 hours provision.

Recently, Monday August 9^th 2021 , The building inspector at the Civil Administration raided the community and targeted three structures built of bricks with halt of work notices on the pretext of building in C area without licenses.

According to the notices, the occupation sat September 1^st 2021, as the date of the subcommittee session in Beit El military court to decide the fate of the structure.

Photos 1-2: The Isolated community

The following table shows more information about the victims and their properties:

‘Arab Ar-Ramadeen Aj-Janubi community lacks basic human needs, and its members live a basic yet difficult life, the apartheid wall isolated them from their Palestinian surrounding, their only connection to the world is military gate 109.

Noteworthy, Most Residences and Shacks at the community received demolition notices, the occupation tried to evict the area many times, but the community’s steadfastness was stronger than the Israeli Occupation oppression.

After several sessions at the Israeli Supreme court between 2007-2008, the community people managed to secure a resolution that allows to stay at their location after they proved they own the lands before the Israeli Occupation to the West Bank in 1967. Despite that, the Occupation takes every opportunity to impose restrictions on the community, and the demolition operation reached out to many buildings and barns. In addition to depriving residents from their basic civil and humanitarian rights.

‘Arab Ar-Ramadeen Aj-Janubi community descend from Beer As-Saba’a area south Palestine, where they were forcedly displaced in 1950 temporarily with a promise to be returned under the supervision of the United Nations, but Israel did not commit to the agreement. Some of the community people went to Hebron, and the rest immigrated to the north of Qalqilya. A number of them went to North Qalqilya and west Jayyous and were known as ‘Arab Ar-Ramadeen Ash-Shamali, and the other part went south Qalqilya to ‘Arab Ar-Ramadeen Aj-Janoubi and bought number of plots and resided them until this day.

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC