Slippery Slope

The Civil Administration has decided not to issue a work permit to a Palestinian because one of his relatives told an administration officer that the man is “known in the village as someone who is not sane.”

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Even though according to the Oslo accords Israel transferred to the Palestinian Authority full administrative responsibility over area A and civil administration of area B, the IDF is preventing construction and development in 4,700 dunams of these areas citing security reasons. Furthermore, seizure orders were issued for approximately 1,870 additional dunams in these areas for use in paving roads related to construction of the separation fence. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Authorities in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Adumim, together with the Mateh Binyamin regional council, are planning construction of an educational complex about a kilometer outside the settlement’s built-up area, and to demolish a school serving the Jahalin Bedouin tribe, which was built without a permit since the Civil Administration has refused to issue a master plan for construction in the area in which the Bedouin have settled. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

An investigation carried out by the Civil Administration indicates that at least 166 housing units in the settlement of Ali were built on private Palestinian land. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

The government is expected to invest more than 100 million NIS in the development of two underground tunnels at Adam junction near Ramallah.  Some of the plans for the development have already been approved by the Civil Administration’s planning committee, while the rest are still in the planning phase.  The Ministry of Transportation approved the project and instructed the Civil Administration to work toward issuing building permits for the project by January.

(Hebrew – Walla!)

The Civil Administration’s higher planning committee has approved the advancement of the E1 construction plan which would see 3,000 housing units being built in the area between Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

Following a petition by the ‘Regavim’ organization to the High Court for Justice, Civil Administration bulldozers demolished a mosque in the Palestinian village of al Mufaqarah, near the settlement of Avigail in the South Hebron Hills.

(Hebrew – HaKol HaYehudi)

Last Monday, the civil administration was about to demolish a school, a hot house, five residential tents, five residential buildings and two solar systems located in Fakhit and Jinba villages in south Hebron, despite a court order forbidding the demolition. At the final moment lawyers from the Rabbis for Human Rights organization managed to inform the civil administration of the court order and prevent the demolition.

(Hebrew)

The IDF and Civil Administration are expanding their activities to evict Palestinians from their villages in the South Hebron Hills, in an area that has been declared as Firing Zone 918. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

In the last year, the Civil Administration opened about three times as many cases for illegal construction against Palestinians than it did against settlers in Area C of the West Bank, which is under Israeli control. This, despite the fact that the settler population of 300,000 is twice as large as the Palestinian population in the area. Further, a database prepared in 2007 shows that almost all settlements build illegally on private Palestinian lands.

(Hebrew)