The Israeli army sets up a separation wall and military garrison on the land of Faro’un village/ Tulkarem governorate.
September - 2003
The Israeli army sets up a separation wall and military garrison on the land of Faro’un village/ Tulkarem governorate.
The village of Faro’un is located 5 km to the south of the city of Tulkarem, with a population of 3000 inhabitants mostly work in agriculture and as laborers inside Israel. The village total area is about 8000 dunums, of which 4000 dunums have been confiscated for exclusive Jewish use, including the separation wall.
The village master plan area is about 360 dunums.
The concerned land is located to the west and south east of the village.
On April 1st, 2002, the Israeli army distributed a written notice in the villager streets and fields informing landowners in the village of the decision to build a separation wall and military garrison on their land. Construction works for the wall started on the same day – April 1st, 2002 – giving landowners no enough time for objection.
On the other hand, the army started to build the military garrison on 15.7.2003. It is located inside the separation zone to the west of the wall at the distance of 400 meters from the boundaries of the village master plan.
The garrison has been built on Al –Rahawat Al- Sharqiyah area over 15 dunums of land, 10 of them are classified as village public land and 5 as private land belonging to farmer Ramadan Mohammed Ibrahim. It is worth mentioning that the village public land has been defined by the village council as built up area.
The table below shows the area of confiscated and separated land according to the village council:
|
Total area of land confiscated |
1038 dunum |
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Total area of land bulldozed and trees uprooted |
912 |
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Total area of land confiscated after amendment of direction of separation wall |
2000 |
|
General total |
3950 |
The number of affected farmers is over a hundred.