- Violation: demolition of residential and agricultural structures
- Location: Al-Jiftlik village- Jericho
- Date: May 09, 2017
- Perpetrators: Planning and Construction Committee- Israel Civil Administration
- Victims: two Palestinian families
Details:
At early hour of Tuesday, May 09, 2017, a massive force from Israeli Occupation Forces accompanied by a military dozer raided the area of "Al-Musaffah" in Al-Jiftlik village and demolished a metal slaps residence and a sheep barn belonging to Al-Kaa'bnah family.
It should be noted that the occupation justified the demolition on the claim of "unlicensed construction".
Noteworthy, Al-Jiftlik village witnesses constant Israeli attack s and violations of the right to proper housing. The occupation keeps on issuing stop-work and demolition orders on the residences of the area in attempt to evacuate it from indigenous people. The following table shows information about the affected owners and properties:
|
Affected citizen |
Family |
Minors |
No. of sheep |
Nature of structure |
Photo |
|
Najeh Kaa'bnah |
9 |
7 |
320 |
60m2 metal slaps barrack 200m2 barn 8 feeders for sheep |
|
|
Oudeh Najeh Kaa'bnah |
3 |
1 |
— |
160m2 metal slaps residences Toilet (cement bricks) |
|
|
Total |
12 |
8 |
320 |
|
|
Source : Field observation- Department of Monitoring Israeli Violations- Land Research Center-2017
About al- Jiftlik:
It is located 35km to the northern part of Jericho city and is edged by the village of Beit Dajan from the northwest and Massua colony from the west.
The village has a population of 4789 people until 2014 and has a total land area of 185031 dunums of which 1110 dunums are built-up area. Noteworthy, the occupation expropriated around 12040 dunums from the village as follows:
- 3207 dunums were confiscated for the favor of establishing colonies in the nearby.
- 3328 dunums were confiscated for the bypass roads no. (90, 505, and 508).
- 5505 dunums were confiscated for the favor of military camps.
Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC
