NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces demolished a residential house and four
steel agricultural structures in Fasayil al-Wusta in the Jordan Valley
Tuesday morning.
Spokesman of the local Campaign to Save the
Jordan Valley Fathi Shqeirat told Ma'an that more than fifteen Israeli
military vehicles escorted two bulldozers into the neighborhood.
Bulldozers
then wrecked a house and two steel structures owned by Mahmoud Ibrahim
Abu Kharbeish, in addition to two livestock farms owned by Hasan
Muhammad Zayid and his brother Hussein.
The pretext for
demolition was that the buildings were constructed "without license"
from the Israeli authorities as they are in Area C and thus under
Israeli control.
Israel has destroyed more than 604 Palestinian
properties in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the beginning of
this year, displacing 1011 people, according to UNOCHA.
Israel
rarely grants Palestinians permits to build in the West Bank, including
East Jerusalem. It has demolished at least 27,000 Palestinian homes and
structures since occupying the West Bank in 1967, according to the
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
The majority of the Jordan Valley is under full Israeli military control, despite being within the Palestinian West Bank.
More
than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank
and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
The
internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West
Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli
military since 1967.
Selasa, 24 Desember 2013
Israeli forces demolish Palestinian properties in Jordan Valley
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