• Violation: Halt of work notice.
• Location: Kafr Ad-Dik town / Salfit governorate.
• Date: February 20^th 2022.
• Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration.
• Victims: 6 families from the town.

Description:

Sunday morning, February 20^th 2022, the building inspector at the Israeli civil administration raided Kafr Ad-Dik town west Salfit city , arrived at “Khallet As-Sumaika” and “Khallet Al-Qameh” west the town , and targeted 6 agricultural rooms with halt of work notices on the pretext of building without a license , noting that the rooms are in private palestinian lands nearby “Leshem” and “Eli Zahav” illegal Israeli colonies.

According to the military notices , the occupation sat March 14^th 2022 , as the date of the building and organization session in Beit El military court to decide the fate of the structures. Two weeks before that , colonists raided the rooms and destroyed everything inside them. The following table shows more information about the damages:

Affected citizen	Family members		children	notices	The targeted facility	area	photo
	Males	females
Nemr Ahmed	4	5	3	40218	agricultural room built of bricks and baton , and an outdoor bathroom	40	1
Najeh Harb	3	1	–	40216	Agricultural room built of zinc and woods on a baton floor	60	2
Habib Ahmed	6	5	5	40217	Agricultural room built of bricks and  a zinc ceiling	40	3
Mohammed Ahmed	3	2	3	N/A	Agricultural room built of woods and zinc	18	N/A
‘Atef Ahmed	5	7	2	40220	Agricultural room built of bricks zinc	45	4
Jamal Ahmed	2	4	2	N/A	Agricultural room built of bricks zinc	24	N/A
	23	24	15

 

 

Farmer Nemr ‘Ali Ahmed told LRC: “Most o the targeted rooms were built before at least four years, and were used to store agricultural tools and several agricultural materials, in addition to providing a resting place for families , the area is heavily targeted by Israeli military notices , and colonists are always present at the area , harassing citizens.”

Kafr Ad-Dik area witnesses daily assaults that included uprooting tens of olive saplings, and land grabs for future colonial projects.

During the past few years, the occupation targeted a large number of facilities in Kafr Ad-Dik town , with halt of work notices , that exceeded 38  in number since the beginning of 2021 and until this day , especially at the northern and western parts of the town.

Kafr Ad-Dik:[1]

Kafr ad Dik is located 15 km to the west of Salfit. It is surrounded by Bidya (north), Rafat and Deir Ballut (west), Bruqin and Sarta (east), and Bani Zaid villages (south).

Kafr ad Dik has a population of 4553 people, according to a 2007 census.

Its total area is 15529 dunums; however, it has been suffocated by bypasses and 3 Israeli colonies that lay over its lands.

This has further limited its expansion knowing that it had already had a 791-dunum organizational plan (built-up area); it also isolated the village from its surroundings.

The Israeli occupation confiscated 2477 dunums of Kafr ad Dik lands for the benefit of:

Colonies devoured 1225 dunums, and they are:

Name of colony	Year of construction	Area of confiscated land/ dunum	Number of colonists
Har Eli Zahav	1983	134	339
Eli Zahav- Yoezer	1982	290	424
Bedoel	1984	800	1088
	1999	1	339
		1225	1512

*Source: Field Research- Monitoring Israeli Violations Team- Land Research Centre (LRC).

Bypasses stole 362 dunums

The Apartheid Wall seized 890 dunums and isolated 8824 dunums and is expected to be 8905 long in Kafr ad Dik lands.

Lands of Kfar ad-Dik are categorized according to Oslo Accords into lands under Area B (15% of the lands) and lands under Area C (85% of the lands).

 

[1] GIS-LRC

 

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
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