2025-05-08
The Occupation Army Uprooting and Destroying 280 Old Olive Trees in Haris village, Kafal Haris / North Salfit
Violation: The occupation issues a military order to bulldoze agricultural lands and uprooted olive trees.
Location: Haris village, and Kafal Haris town, North Salfit.
Date: May, 8th2025.
Perpetrator: The Israeli occupation army.
Affected party: 21 families from 2 villages consisting 121 members.
Details:
Haris village and Kafal Haris town north Salfit witnessed during over a week an attack, and ravaging large lands. This attack included: uprooting dozens of olive trees in Wadi Awwad and Umm Al Kohouf, which are located next to bypass No.’’505’’.
The map above show the location of ravaging lands and uprooting trees with total area 65 dunams
The field researcher at LRC has documented that the Israeli Occupation Forces commander in the West Bank, named ‘’Alouf Balut’’ issued an urgent military order in April,2025 numbered (4/25/Urgent and Immediate), which includes ravaging lands and cutting olive trees in these communities and targeting about 65 dunams from two lands’ villages.
The following table shows the details of the damages:
Affected farmer | Family number | Female number | Children number | Number of targeted trees | The area /m2 |
Mohammad Sa’eed Ahmad Shemlawi | 8 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1000 |
Ahmad Adnan Mohammad Shemlawi | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 400 |
Kamal Suliman Ahmad Kaleeb | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 400 |
Ahmad Suliman Ahmad Kleeb | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 696 |
Ata Fareed Mustafa Sultan | 9 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 900 |
Abdallah Mohammad Dawoud Dawoud | 6 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 650 |
Jawdat Mohammad Dawoud Dawoud | 11 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 600 |
Waddah Abdallah Shemlawi | 4 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 2000 |
Fo’ad Yousef Dar Souf | 6 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 900 |
Jawad Mohammad Dawoud Dawoud | 8 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 500 |
Hisham Ali Abed Jaber | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 700 |
Wajeha Taher Mohammd Dawoud | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 300 |
Fadi Hassan Shemlawi | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 1072 |
Hamza Yousef Mustafa Salameh | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 300 |
Obaid Nimar Obaid | 9 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 500 |
Abbas Abd Nayef Souf | 6 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 750 |
Imad Sa’eed Souf | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 500 |
Dia’a Ghassan Dawoud | 8 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 2700 |
Jamil Mohammad Mustafa Dawoud | 7 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 3000 |
Fawzi Fayez Abd Al Raheem Dawoud | 5 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 1500 |
Bashar Abed Ali Dawoud | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 420 |
Total |
121 |
60 |
40 |
280 |
19788 |
The affected farmer Ata Fareed Sultan told:
‘’ What happened in Haris village and Kafal Haris is catastrophic, it didn’t stop at the uprooting more than 280 old and fruitful olive trees. Now the land that was bulldozed has been declared a closed military area and farmers aren’t allowed to accessing their lands, resulting to prevent 20 farmers from accessing and take care of the land, adding further hardship to the daily suffering they already endure.’’
Haris Village:
The village of Haris is located 6 km west of the city of Salfit, with a total land area of 8,450 dunums, and the built-up area of the village covering approximately 320 dunums. It is bordered to the north by Deir Istiya, to the east by Kifl Haris, to the southwest by Buruqin and Kafr ad-Dik, and to the west by Qarawat Bani Hassan.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) for the year 2017, the village has a population of around 4,137 residents. The main families in the village include: Abu ‘Ata, Dawood, Salameh, Sultan, Shahada, Souf, ‘Awad, Fazaa‘, Qassem, and Kleib.
Haris stands as a living testimony to the bitterness and brutality of the Israeli occupation. The colonial Route 505 was constructed through its fertile agricultural lands, stretching over 4 km and linking the Green Line with the heart of the occupied West Bank—a road that not only cuts through the land physically but symbolically represents the ongoing fragmentation and control of Palestinian territory.
مشروع: حماية الحقوق البيئية الفلسطينية في مناطق "ج" SPERAC IV - GFFO
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