2025-04-09
The Occupation Forces Ravage Lands and Uproot Trees in Beit Ula town / East Hebron Governorate
Violation: Land bulldozing and uprooting trees.
Date: April,9th 2025.
Location: Tawas- Beit Ula/ Hebron governorate.
Perpetrator: The so-called Israeli Civil Administration.
Affected party: 5 farmers.
Details:
In April, 9th 2025, the occupation authorities ravaged lands from citizens’ lands in Beit Ula east of Hebron governorate, as uprooted trees and demolished agricultural structure under pretext of building in areas classified as ‘state land’.
The affected farmers noted that the occupation authorities ravaged their lands in ‘Tawas’ area east of the town by using machineries in ravaging operation.
The table below shows the names of the affected farmers and the damage:
Affected Farmer |
The damage |
The affected trees Number |
The area |
Family Member |
Children Number |
Female Number |
Araf Kan’an Alzhoor |
Demolition Stone terraces, 1002 meters long. |
Ravaging 22 live saplings aging 3 years. |
1.5
| 9 | 5 | 3 |
Rami Abd Al Fattah Atawneh | Demolition agricultural room, 20m2+well with capacity 70m3+ terraces, 115meters long. |
Ravaging 75 olive saplings aging 4 years old. |
2 |
8 |
4 |
4 |
Shadi Khalil Atawneh |
Demolition agricultural room 65m2+ bathroom+ metal gate+ stones terraces ,95m long. |
Ravaging 20 grape trees aging 8 years+ 20 live trees aging 7 years. |
1.5 |
7 |
5 |
3 |
Obada Ahmad Aqeel |
Demolition well with a capacity 80m+ siege and terraces with 130m long. |
Ravaging 20 grape olive aging 6 years+ 30 olive trees aging 6 years. |
2 |
6 |
4 |
3 |
Ahmad Abd Alkareem Abu Shkhaidem |
Demolition stones terraces with 20m long. |
Ravaging 25 olive trees aging 6 years. |
1 |
6 |
4 |
3 |
The occupation authorities claimed that these lands classified as ‘state lands’ after they were confiscated from original landowners. According to military order and inheritance laws in the West Bank, the goal is preventing urban expansion and agricultural spread in the area that classified ’C’ with aim of preserve it as reserve area.
As these lands were targeted by several notices titled’ notice to evict’ issued in July and August of 2023, As the occupation authorities issued evacuation notices for these lands, demanding that citizens uproot what had been planted and demolish any structures, restoring the land to its original state within 45 days of the notice date. Citizens submitted legal objections to these notices, yet the occupation authorities proceeded to bulldoze and destroy their lands.
An overview of Beit Ula Town:
Beit Ula is located 14 km to the northwest of Hebron city; it has a total area of 24,000 dunums, most of which are classified as area “B” according to Oslo Accords. The town houses a total population of 13,000 Palestinians and is run by a municipal council that was elected in 2012.
The town is famous for olive and vegetable plantation in addition to metal manufacturing and stones factories.
Around 2000 dunums from the lands of Beit Ula were confiscated for the favor of the apartheid wall establishment in 2004. Over the past couple of years, the Israeli occupation authorities ravaged tens of agricultural dunums, uprooted thousands of trees, demolished five water cisterns and confiscated many agricultural equipment and tractors in the town. The Israeli government took the aforementioned measures to push Palestinian farmers to abandon their lands (classified as area C). But farmers never let down their lands and always tried to object confiscation and demolition orders in Israeli court.
مشروع: حماية الحقوق البيئية الفلسطينية في مناطق "ج" SPERAC IV - GFFO
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