The occupation demolished and confiscated all the residents’ property and rendered them homeless
"Khirbet Ibziq" in the Jordan Valley..200 Palestinians face the threat of displacement
The occupation forces demolished 20 structures in Khirbet Ibziq.
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Official file of the Jordan Valley in the province of Tubas Moataz Basharat.
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Confiscation of the property of Ibziq residents after the demolition of their ruins.
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Remnants of the demolition of the homes of Khirbet Ibziq residents.
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Among piles of tin rubble and destroyed cement blocks, Palestinian Adnan Abdul-Mahdi al-Salameen, a resident of Khirbet Ibziq, located to the north-east of Tubas Governorate in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, sits bewildered and whose fate is unknown to him and his family and the families of his children, after they lost the only shelter, and became Vulnerable to a wave of homelessness and displacement, in light of the hot summer waves.
Next to him, his grandchildren are searching for memories buried under three one-story houses belonging to Salam and his children, where they, along with children and women, are vulnerable to displacement and displacement, after the occupation bulldozers demolished their homes and flattened them to the ground, on the morning of Wednesday, the fourth of August, to Besides the destruction of pastoral tents, and the confiscation of agricultural equipment, the family also lost its only source of livelihood.
demolition and deprivation
As for the citizen Nael Al-Hroub, he faced a wave of demolition and confiscation, which affected four houses and tents used for housing. The occupation also demolished sheep sheds, water tanks, and solar cells used as an alternative to generate electricity, as the occupation prohibits the residents of “Khirbet Ibziq” from extending water lines and networks and delivering electricity. .
In addition to the series of demolition and confiscation violations carried out by the occupation against the 45 families of "Khirbet Ibziq", it deprives them of all the basic necessities of daily life, including infrastructure, road networks, health and educational services.
Al-Hroub, whose face showed signs of fatigue as he searched for shelter for his family of eight, after the occupation demolished all his property: “All the residents of (Khirbet Ibziq) are besieged from all directions, by the occupation army camps and the apartheid wall, and they are deprived of services. Basic and the minimum basic necessities of living, such as infrastructure, paved roads, and water and electricity networks.”
Al-Hroub added: “The people of al-Khirbet live inside tents of cloth, and face harsh humanitarian scenes in their daily lives, especially in terms of the health situation, as (Ibziq) lacks a health clinic, and the nearest health center is located in the city of Tubas, eight kilometers away.” .
He points out that the occupation prevents residents from building on their land in Khirbet Ibziq, explaining that the occupation forces all lands in the area to be closed military, for the purpose of establishing training camps.
wide operation
200 Palestinians, residents of the “Khirbet Ibziq” community, which covers an area of 45,000 dunums, are facing the threat of displacement, expropriation and expulsion of their land, despite the fact that they have lived in it for more than 55 years, after the occupation mechanisms carried out extensive demolitions and confiscations that affected all the homes and properties of the indigenous people. .
The demolitions carried out by the occupation, at the beginning of this month, affected residential facilities, all homes and families’ tents, and livestock barns, in addition to confiscating residents’ properties that are used for grazing sheep and cultivating the land.
The official of the Jordan Valley file in Tubas Governorate, Moataz Bisharat, said in an exclusive interview with "Emirates Today": "On the morning of last Wednesday, representatives of the Israeli Civil Administration and soldiers from the occupation forces (Khirbet Ibziq), with them, bulldozers, military vehicles and workers to carry out the demolition, and over the course of a period Five hours straight, they carried out massive demolitions and total confiscation.”
He points out that during the implementation of the massive demolition, the forces demolished nearly 20 residential facilities, as well as dismantled sheep pens, solar cells, and water tanks, and confiscated several agricultural tractors and private vehicles for the original residents of Khirbet.
As a result of the occupation’s implementation of demolitions and confiscations, according to Bisharat, 45 families, most of them women and children, are now homeless, facing displacement and displacement again, after they were displaced from their original Palestinian cities in the Nakba in 1948.
He says: "The lands of Khirbet are owned by their Palestinian owners with identification papers (Tabu), but the occupation aims to empty the area of its original inhabitants, implement settlement plans, and establish military training sites."
Over the past years, the Khirbet Ibziq community has been demolished more than once, for security reasons, considering it a nature reserve and an archaeological site. The occupation also confiscated parts of the Khirbet lands, and built sections of the apartheid wall on other parts.
• Nael Al-Hroub faced a wave of demolition and confiscation, which affected four houses and tents used for housing. The occupation also demolished sheep pens, water tanks, and solar cells used as an alternative to generate electricity, as the occupation prohibits the residents of Khirbet Ibziq from extending water lines and networks and delivering electricity.
• All residents of Khirbet Ibziq are besieged from all directions, by the occupation army camps and the apartheid wall, and deprived of basic services and the most basic necessities of living, such as infrastructure, paved roads, and water and electricity networks.
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