• Violation: Halt of Work Notice.
• Location: Kafr Ad-Dik town / Salfit.
• Date: March 9^th 2022.
• Perpetrators: The Israeli Civil Administration.
• Victims: 3 families from the town.

Description:

Wednesday morning March 9^th 2022, The building inspector at the Israeli Civil Administration raided the western part of Kafr Ad-Dik town in Salfit City, and targeted rehabilitation works in a plot , a store , and an electricity network , on the pretext of working without a license.

According to the notices, the occupation sat March 23^rd 2022 as the date of the inspection subcommittee in “Beit El” military court to decide the fate of the structure.

The following table shows more information about the facilities:

Affected citizens	Family members		children	Area m2	The targeted facility	Notice number	photo
	males	females
Mohammed Ad-Dik	2	3	3	150 m2	-a plot under rehabilitation. -an electricity network.
‘Imad Ad-Dik	2	1	1	1000 m2 and the road about 100 m2	-a plot under rehabilitation. -an agricultural road.
Firas Ad-Dik	2	4	4	60 m2	store	N/A
total	6	8	8	1210

 

During the past years, The Occupation served 38 halt of work notices to facilities in Kafr Ad-Dik since the beginning of 2021 and until this day.

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
LRC