the 1995 accords, 5.2% of village land was classified as Area B, the remaining 94.8% as Area C. Israel has confiscated 171 dunums of village land in for the Israeli settlements of Peduel and Alei Zahav. By 2020, there were reports about untreated sewage from the nearby Israeli settlements of Leshem, Peduel and Beit Aryeh-Ofarim being dumped on Deir Ballut land. In January 2021 the Israeli military authority had some 3,000 olive trees planted by the villagers uprooted. Many has been planted as long as 15 years earlier. The destruction,on the grounds that the area in question was, in Israeli law, Israeli state property, took place six days after a legal appeal had been made against the order. The authorities then stated that the uprooting occurred before knowledge of the filed appeal papers came to their notice. See also Battle of Tell 'Asur John Macdonald Aiken References Bibliography External links Welcome To Dayr Ballut Deir Ballut, IWPS Deir Balut, Welcome to Palestine Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons Deir Ballut Town (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) Deir Ballut Town Profile, ARIJ Aerial photo, ARIJ Development Priorities and Needs in Deir Ballut, ARIJ New Colonial Activity in Deir Ballut Village - Salfit District, 12 March 2000, POICA War against trees and sheep, 10 March 2004, POICA Israeli brought wild pigs destroy tens of dunums in Deir Ballut plain, 30 July 2006, POICA Kfar Ad Dik and Deir Ballut in Salfit Governorate receive New Land confiscation Order, 10 January 2007, POICA Deir Ballut's fruitful olive trees cut for Wall Constructions, 3 March, 2007, POICA New Military Orders to Halt Construction of Seven Palestinian Houses in the Village of Deir Ballut, 1 October 2007, POICA The Israeli Army to demolish an under-construction school in Deir Ballut Village, 14 February 2008, POICA New house demolition orders in Deir Ballut village, 19 June 2008, POICA Palestinian homes due to be demolished over 'lack of permits' pretext in Deir Ballut Village, 22 September 2010, ARIJ Towns in Salfit Governorate Salfit Governorate Municipalities of West Bank Municipalities of the State of Palestine