Eviction order on a plot west Deir Istiya / Salfit Governorate

May 13, 2020

• Violation: An eviction order on a plot.
• Location: Deir Istiya / Salfit governorate.
• Date: May 13^th 2020.
• Perpetrator: Government properties officer- The Israeli Occupation civil administration.
• Victims: Farmers Hussain Zidan.

Description:

The Israeli Occupation Forces accompanied by the Government properties officer raided Deir Istiya , and served a military notice numbered “001000” , under which farmer Hussain Zidan has to evict a 10 dunums plot in less than 45 days , under clims of using a governmental property.

Reportedly, the targeted lands is planted with olives (aging 15 years old), and contains 130 olive trees , surrounded by a retaining wall (350 m long), Zidan rehabilitated the plot with the financial support of Union of Agricultural Work Committee in summer 2018.

Affected farmer told LRC:

“In 2011, the occupation forces ravaged and destroyed my plot , the ravages uprooted the olive trees and destroyed the retaining walls. The occupation claims that my plot belongs to the “Israeli Government” ,  but I have ownership deeds that prove the opposite. When I started rehabilitating the plot, settlers of the illegal settlement “Yakir” started attacking me on a daily basis. The main reason behind the rehabilitation was to protect it  from colonial expansion schemes, But it didn’t take long before the occupation forces showed up with an eviction notice”.

Deir Istiya village: [1]

10 km north Salfit , Deir Istiya is surrounded by Ematin , Jinsafut and Kafr Laqif (north), Azzun and Kafar Thulth (west), Zita, Jama’en and Kafl Haris (east), Haris and Qaraqwat Bani Hyssan (south)

Deir Istiya has a population of (3,696) people in 2017 census.

The town has a total area of 34,125, of which 640 dunums are a built up area. 

The Israeli occupation confiscated (4,257) dunums for the following purposes:

• Bypass roads 55 and 5066 devoured 118 dunums.
• The segregation wall (1,148 m ate up115 dunums , in case its construction plan was completed it will isolate 8,408 dunums and eat up 160 dunums.

Oslo accords classified Deir Istiya as the following :

• B area : 6,132 dunums.
• C area 27,993 dunums.

[1] GIS-LRC