Violation: Destruction a section of agricultural road.

Location: Deir Ballut town, west Salfit.

Date: May, 27^th 2025.

Perpetrators: The Israeli occupation forces.

Affected party: Farmers in Deir Balout town.

Details:

In the evening hours of Tuesday, May,27^th 2025, the occupation forces raided Al Nashr area located west Deir Balout town, as the occupation begin using Israeli military bulldozer and without any prior alert to destruction a section of agricultural road with Bascors material using this bulldozer, in addition to put earth berms to close off the agricultural road and preventing use it.

About 60 meters from this road were ravaged and put earth berms with aim to preventing farmers from reuse it, this road is a main road serves 80 dunams planted with olive located west town and several numbers of pastoral outpost located west town and near the annexation and expansion wall.

Mr. Dawod Ahmad Abdallah to the LRC researcher as follows:

‘’ What happens in Deir Balout town is considered tightening the noose around the town including: closed off the agricultural lands and large areas from pastoral lands west town, these actions came according to the recommendation of settlers and they want landfill closer in the town, in addition that this targeted road is reach to the landfill and links the town, causing serve damage to the Palestinian environment.

Over the past months, the Israeli’s occupation attacks increased on farmers and closed off large areas from lands, causing damage to the environmental system.

About Deir Ballut:

Deir Ballut is located 24 kilometers west of the city of Salfit. It is bordered to the north by the village of Rafat, to the west by the Green Line -the lands occupied in 1948- to the east by the village of Kafr ad-Dik, and to the south by the village of Al-Lubban Al-Gharbi.

As of (2017), the population of the town was (3,873). The residents belong to nine families: Tuffaha, Khair, Abdullah, Qasim, Qar'oush, Mashel, Mustafa, Mousa, and Hadrous.

The total area of the town is 11,399 dunams, of which 503 dunams are designated as the village's built-up area.

On its eastern lands, the Israeli occupation has established two settlements (Har Eli Zahav and Peduel). The occupation has confiscated 436 dunams of its land for this purpose, as detailed below:

• The settlement of "Har Eli Zahav" has seized 190 dunams of the village's lands. It was established in 1983 and, as of January 3, 2019, is home to 3,119 settlers, according to statistics from the Israeli Ministry of Interior.
• The bypass road No. 446 has taken an additional 127 dunams of the village's land.
• Furthermore, the separation wall runs through the village's lands, confiscating 119 dunams under its path and isolating 895 dunams. The current length of the wall in the village is 1,189 meters. If the planned construction of the wall on the village's lands is completed, it will confiscate 670 dunams under its path and isolate 2,613 dunams, with a total length of 6,695 meters.

According to the Oslo Accords, the village's lands are classified as follows:

• Area B: 689 dunams.
• Area C: 10,710 dunams.

مشروع: حماية الحقوق البيئية الفلسطينية في مناطق "ج" SPERAC IV - GFFO

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إخلاء المسؤولية: الآراء ووجهات النظر الواردة في هذا التقرير هي آراء ووجهات نظر مركز أبحاث الأراضي ولا تعكس بالضرورة وجهات نظر أو مواقف الجهة المانحة للمشروع؛ المجلس النرويجي. للاجئين