19 aug 2016
Israeli bulldozers, escorted by Israeli police, demolished Palestinian-owned properties in several Bedouin villages of the Negev Desert, in southern Israel on Thursday, according to local sources.
Local sources told Ma’an News Agency that Israeli bulldozers demolished residential buildings and arbors located near al-Salam street near the Arara district in the Negev.
A car wash station owned by Arab al-Frejat was also demolished in the Beer al-Mashash village, while Israeli forces raided the village of Um-Batin and demolished a livestock barn.
Bedouin member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, Talab Abu Arar denounced the demolitions, saying that “Israel’s demolition campaigns are conducted for political and demographic reasons rather than legal as Israeli authorities claim,” adding that the demolitions occurred without the owners receiving prior warnings.
Abu Arar highlighted that the finances spent on demolition campaigns in the Bedouin community should instead be spent on education, healthcare, and social welfare in the villages.
He also said that the demolitions were part of Israel’s attempts to push Palestinians out of the Negev and force them to leave their lands.
Approximately 160,000 Bedouins reside in villages not recognized by the state of Israel in the Negev alone, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), where they are denied basic services and infrastructure.
The Israeli government uses a variety of strategies to pressure Bedouins into relocating to government-planned urban centers, in contradiction with their semi-nomadic lifestyle, which necessitates access to open grazing land for herding camels and goats.
Meanwhile, demolitions are an almost daily occurrence for Bedouins in the occupied West Bank who largely reside in “Area C” — areas under full Israeli civil and military control according to the Oslo Accords.
Over 70 percent of Bedouins in the West Bank are refugees, displaced from their original places of residence in what is now southern Israel during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), while the majority of Palestinians displaced due to the demolition of their homes in Area C reside in Bedouin communities.
According to UN statistics, Palestinians now make up the largest percentage of refugees worldwide.
Local sources told Ma’an News Agency that Israeli bulldozers demolished residential buildings and arbors located near al-Salam street near the Arara district in the Negev.
A car wash station owned by Arab al-Frejat was also demolished in the Beer al-Mashash village, while Israeli forces raided the village of Um-Batin and demolished a livestock barn.
Bedouin member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, Talab Abu Arar denounced the demolitions, saying that “Israel’s demolition campaigns are conducted for political and demographic reasons rather than legal as Israeli authorities claim,” adding that the demolitions occurred without the owners receiving prior warnings.
Abu Arar highlighted that the finances spent on demolition campaigns in the Bedouin community should instead be spent on education, healthcare, and social welfare in the villages.
He also said that the demolitions were part of Israel’s attempts to push Palestinians out of the Negev and force them to leave their lands.
Approximately 160,000 Bedouins reside in villages not recognized by the state of Israel in the Negev alone, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), where they are denied basic services and infrastructure.
The Israeli government uses a variety of strategies to pressure Bedouins into relocating to government-planned urban centers, in contradiction with their semi-nomadic lifestyle, which necessitates access to open grazing land for herding camels and goats.
Meanwhile, demolitions are an almost daily occurrence for Bedouins in the occupied West Bank who largely reside in “Area C” — areas under full Israeli civil and military control according to the Oslo Accords.
Over 70 percent of Bedouins in the West Bank are refugees, displaced from their original places of residence in what is now southern Israel during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), while the majority of Palestinians displaced due to the demolition of their homes in Area C reside in Bedouin communities.
According to UN statistics, Palestinians now make up the largest percentage of refugees worldwide.
18 aug 2016
The tent village of Susya with illegal EU built structures
Approximately 300 Palestinian Bedouin have begun to build a village with European Union assistance without building permits; although the High Court of Justice issued a demolition order, nothing has changed on the ground; The Palestinians and the Israeli government are in negotiations over how to handle the issue.
The High Court of Justice ordered illegal structures in Susya to be demolished two years ago. The Court then requested the state's position on the issue. However, due to international pressure, the state has yet to take a stance.
The village of Susya is a Bedouin village built without permits in the Israeli controlled Area C of the West Bank. The international community has been putting pressure on the Israeli leadership to not destroy the illegal structures for years, saying that it would make 300 people homeless, and endanger the two state solution. The European Union has built structures on the land for the Palestinians without obtaining building permits from the Israeli government.
In an effort to come to an understanding between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, Israel has said that it wants to move the villagers to a nearby hill and give them 540 dunams next to the Palestinian town of Yatta, from which many of them hail. Meanwhile, the Palestinians have requested to make arrangements to enable the village to continue to exist where it is while giving the villagers 1,500 dunams of land for agricultural purposes.
After the "Regavim" movement brought the issue to the High Court of Justice's attention, the High Court issued an order forbidding the Palestinians from building additional structures in the village. A demolition order was signed in 2014 to demolish structures built despite the order not to build. The High Court also denied a Palestinian request to prohibit the relevant authorities from carrying out the demolitions. The High Court said that the Palestinians are making laws unto themselves, and are continuing to build in defiance of a court order.
Throughout this time, There have been dozens of attempts by the Israeli government and the Palestinians to try to come to a compromise, but they have all failed due to seemingly insurmountable differences between the two sides. The Palestinians insist that they are not willing to give up the land and claim they will not move under the framework of any solution.
Regavim replied in response, "this is a clan of a few dozen people making a crazy demand for land that is comparable to the size of Beit Dagan or Rosh Pina. The Nawajah family owns homes in Yatta and therefore it's the government's job to evict them to ensure they go back to their homes. Even the solution offered by the government to facilitate their relocation to areas close to Yatta is too lenient."
"We expect the Prime Minister to ignore foreign pressure, which constitutes blatant interference in the internal affairs of Israel, and make a decision which reflects the rule of law and the national interests of Israel," Regavim continued.
Approximately 300 Palestinian Bedouin have begun to build a village with European Union assistance without building permits; although the High Court of Justice issued a demolition order, nothing has changed on the ground; The Palestinians and the Israeli government are in negotiations over how to handle the issue.
The High Court of Justice ordered illegal structures in Susya to be demolished two years ago. The Court then requested the state's position on the issue. However, due to international pressure, the state has yet to take a stance.
The village of Susya is a Bedouin village built without permits in the Israeli controlled Area C of the West Bank. The international community has been putting pressure on the Israeli leadership to not destroy the illegal structures for years, saying that it would make 300 people homeless, and endanger the two state solution. The European Union has built structures on the land for the Palestinians without obtaining building permits from the Israeli government.
In an effort to come to an understanding between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, Israel has said that it wants to move the villagers to a nearby hill and give them 540 dunams next to the Palestinian town of Yatta, from which many of them hail. Meanwhile, the Palestinians have requested to make arrangements to enable the village to continue to exist where it is while giving the villagers 1,500 dunams of land for agricultural purposes.
After the "Regavim" movement brought the issue to the High Court of Justice's attention, the High Court issued an order forbidding the Palestinians from building additional structures in the village. A demolition order was signed in 2014 to demolish structures built despite the order not to build. The High Court also denied a Palestinian request to prohibit the relevant authorities from carrying out the demolitions. The High Court said that the Palestinians are making laws unto themselves, and are continuing to build in defiance of a court order.
Throughout this time, There have been dozens of attempts by the Israeli government and the Palestinians to try to come to a compromise, but they have all failed due to seemingly insurmountable differences between the two sides. The Palestinians insist that they are not willing to give up the land and claim they will not move under the framework of any solution.
Regavim replied in response, "this is a clan of a few dozen people making a crazy demand for land that is comparable to the size of Beit Dagan or Rosh Pina. The Nawajah family owns homes in Yatta and therefore it's the government's job to evict them to ensure they go back to their homes. Even the solution offered by the government to facilitate their relocation to areas close to Yatta is too lenient."
"We expect the Prime Minister to ignore foreign pressure, which constitutes blatant interference in the internal affairs of Israel, and make a decision which reflects the rule of law and the national interests of Israel," Regavim continued.
A Palestinian expert in settlement affairs warned of an Israeli settlement scheme to connect illegal outposts on both sides of the Green Line under the economic pretext.
According to expert Abdul Hadi Hantesh, an Israeli settlement scheme in southern al-Khalil aims at seizing hundreds of dunums of Palestinian lands and wiping out all traces of Palestinian existence near the Green Line by expanding illegal settlements near the apartheid wall, in 1948 Occupied Palestine.
He added that the Israeli occupation is planning the construction of an industrial zone near the Tarqumiya crossing, in southern al-Khalil, to pull Israeli entrepreneurs towards Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s so-called economic peace project.
The plot also includes the establishment of a commercial complex in the Tina Omarim illegal settlement.
Over recent weeks, Israeli bulldozers leveled Palestinian lands in the area, paving the way for the launch of construction works.
Commenting on the anti-settlement position recently adopted by the U.S., particularly over the Susiya village, in al-Khalil, the expert said that it might serve as a pressure card to reduce the speed of Israeli illegal settlement activity.
“But such a possibility cannot materialize on the ground if it is not propped up by a Palestinian official appeal to the International Criminal Court so as to impeach Israel for its illegal settlement projects,” said Hantesh.
Over 8,500 Israelis have been residing in 15 illegal settlements built on Palestinian lands in Jabal al-Khalil area, in the southern occupied West Bank.
According to expert Abdul Hadi Hantesh, an Israeli settlement scheme in southern al-Khalil aims at seizing hundreds of dunums of Palestinian lands and wiping out all traces of Palestinian existence near the Green Line by expanding illegal settlements near the apartheid wall, in 1948 Occupied Palestine.
He added that the Israeli occupation is planning the construction of an industrial zone near the Tarqumiya crossing, in southern al-Khalil, to pull Israeli entrepreneurs towards Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s so-called economic peace project.
The plot also includes the establishment of a commercial complex in the Tina Omarim illegal settlement.
Over recent weeks, Israeli bulldozers leveled Palestinian lands in the area, paving the way for the launch of construction works.
Commenting on the anti-settlement position recently adopted by the U.S., particularly over the Susiya village, in al-Khalil, the expert said that it might serve as a pressure card to reduce the speed of Israeli illegal settlement activity.
“But such a possibility cannot materialize on the ground if it is not propped up by a Palestinian official appeal to the International Criminal Court so as to impeach Israel for its illegal settlement projects,” said Hantesh.
Over 8,500 Israelis have been residing in 15 illegal settlements built on Palestinian lands in Jabal al-Khalil area, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Dozens of Palestinian youths at dawn Thursday choked on tear gas in violent clashes with Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) that lasted for hours in Jaba town to the south of Jenin city.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli troops broke into about 19 houses in Jaba town amid search operations, field investigation and sabotaging Palestinians’ properties.
Robberies at the hands of Israeli soldiers during storming Palestinians’ homes were reported as well. The family of Ahmad Shalash lost a jewelry set after Israeli soldiers left their home, local sources revealed.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli troops broke into about 19 houses in Jaba town amid search operations, field investigation and sabotaging Palestinians’ properties.
Robberies at the hands of Israeli soldiers during storming Palestinians’ homes were reported as well. The family of Ahmad Shalash lost a jewelry set after Israeli soldiers left their home, local sources revealed.
The Israeli occupation army on Wednesday evening notified a Palestinian citizen of its intention to demolish a water well in Yatta town, south of al-Khalil city.
Local activist Rateb al-Jabour said the well is located in Umm Neir south of the town and belongs to Mohamed al-Jabour.
This is the second and final demolition notice against the well, according to Jabour.
In another context, Israeli minister of construction Yoav Galant has declared Israel's intention to increase the number of settlers in Gush Etzion settlement bloc, north of al-Khalil, to half a million.
Galant made remarks in this regard during a visit on Tuesday to Gush Etzion, according to Jerusalem Post newspaper. "We have an obligation to build in Gush Etzion. This place is important historically and strategically," he told reporters.
Local activist Rateb al-Jabour said the well is located in Umm Neir south of the town and belongs to Mohamed al-Jabour.
This is the second and final demolition notice against the well, according to Jabour.
In another context, Israeli minister of construction Yoav Galant has declared Israel's intention to increase the number of settlers in Gush Etzion settlement bloc, north of al-Khalil, to half a million.
Galant made remarks in this regard during a visit on Tuesday to Gush Etzion, according to Jerusalem Post newspaper. "We have an obligation to build in Gush Etzion. This place is important historically and strategically," he told reporters.
The Israeli occupation army's civil administration on Wednesday handed Palestinians demolition orders against their homes in Abu Annwar Bedouin hamlet east of Occupied Jerusalem.
Spokesman for the Abu Annwar residents Abu Imad al-Jahalin said that employees from the civil administration escorted by troops stormed the hamlet and handed three citizens notices informing them of intents to remove their mobile homes.
Jahalin added that families of eight individuals live in these homes, affirming that the whole hamlet is threatened with demolition in order to expand settlements.
Israel is seeking to expel dozens of Palestinian families from Bedouin communities east of Jerusalem as a prelude to expanding settlements, especially Maale Adumim settlement.
Maale Adumim was built illegally on annexed lands in the towns of al-Eizariya and Abu Dis.
Spokesman for the Abu Annwar residents Abu Imad al-Jahalin said that employees from the civil administration escorted by troops stormed the hamlet and handed three citizens notices informing them of intents to remove their mobile homes.
Jahalin added that families of eight individuals live in these homes, affirming that the whole hamlet is threatened with demolition in order to expand settlements.
Israel is seeking to expel dozens of Palestinian families from Bedouin communities east of Jerusalem as a prelude to expanding settlements, especially Maale Adumim settlement.
Maale Adumim was built illegally on annexed lands in the towns of al-Eizariya and Abu Dis.
Several Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers, invaded on Wednesday, the western area of Teqoua town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, before uprooting and bulldozing Palestinian lands.
The soldiers surrounded the area before invading it, and started bulldozing and uprooting the Palestinian lands, close to the western entrance of the town.
The military did not reveal the reasons behind uprooting the Palestinian lands, but is likely preparing to install a new base, or a military tower to monitor the town’s main road, as it is also used by Israelis living in illegal colonies in the area.
The soldiers surrounded the area before invading it, and started bulldozing and uprooting the Palestinian lands, close to the western entrance of the town.
The military did not reveal the reasons behind uprooting the Palestinian lands, but is likely preparing to install a new base, or a military tower to monitor the town’s main road, as it is also used by Israelis living in illegal colonies in the area.
17 aug 2016
The Jahalin school opened its doors a week earlier than scheduled, in protest at Israeli orders for its closure.
A protest is due to take place outside a school in Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, after Israeli authorities ordered it be shut down and demolished.
The solidarity protest, organised by the Palestinian Ministry of Education, was staged after village residents and the Italian ambassador were informed in writing on Monday of Israel's decision to shut the school, which accommodates 170 students from five Bedouin communities in the region, community spokesman Eid Abo Khamis told Al Jazeera.
Italian aid organisation Vento Di Terra helped the Jahalin Bedouin community residing in al-Khan al-Ahmar to build the school in 2009 to serve as an alternative to distant schools, the routes to which are both risky and expensive.
Shlomo Lecker, the attorney representing the Jerusalem-based Bedouin community, told Al Jazeera that the Italian ambassador had been summoned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the matter.
“I spoke to the Italian ambassador several days ago after his meeting with Netanyahu,” Lecker told Al Jazeera, adding that the ambassador was informed that an official order was going to be issued to close the school down.
IN PICTURES: When a school is illegal
"In response to these orders, the Palestinian Ministry of Education decided to open the school a week earlier than originally planned. This might make any plans of closure more difficult to carry out."
Starting the school year earlier than scheduled ensures that students are in regular attendance inside the premises, which makes it less likely for Israeli authorities to permanently close the school down.
According to a report released by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, the Israeli Civil Administration, the governing body of Israel's occupation in the West Bank, issued a demolition order one month after the school had been opened in 2009, because it was built near a road to which expansion plans had already been approved.
Nearby Israeli settlements and the Israeli NGO Regavi have petitioned the Supreme Court three times since then, demanding the demolition of the encampments in Khan al-Ahmar, which are home to some 100 families.
READ MORE: Israeli demolitions make more Palestinians homeless
Khalid Quzmar, a lawyer and the general director of Defense for Children International, an organisation advocating for the rights of Palestinian children in the occupied territories, told Al Jazeera that requests for the school's demolition and closure are "part of a wider plan to displace the Jahalin Bedouin".
The school is "essential to the community", Quzmar said.
"There is no justification behind closing down the school. It was built using mud and tyres to avoid breaking laws that prohibit Palestinians from using cement in construction," he added.
"Israeli authorities always claim that buildings are closed down or demolished because they were built without permits. But how are Palestinians going to get permits when Israeli authorities oftentimes refuse to grant them?"
The Jahalin Tribe currently lives on the periphery of Jerusalem, on the West Bank side of the Apartheid Wall. In the early 1950s, the Bedouins were displaced from their land near Tel Arad, in the southern Negev desert. The tribe is the largest refugee tribe in the West Bank today.
In 2013, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to relocate the Jahalin Bedouins to an area near the city of Jericho, where they would be under Palestinian Authority control.
Area C of the occupied West Bank accounts for more than 60 percent of the entirety of the West Bank, and is under full Israeli control. The Civil Administration regulates all Palestinian construction and building within the area.
The Israeli Civil Administration was unavailable for immediate comment when contacted by Al Jazeera.
A protest is due to take place outside a school in Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, after Israeli authorities ordered it be shut down and demolished.
The solidarity protest, organised by the Palestinian Ministry of Education, was staged after village residents and the Italian ambassador were informed in writing on Monday of Israel's decision to shut the school, which accommodates 170 students from five Bedouin communities in the region, community spokesman Eid Abo Khamis told Al Jazeera.
Italian aid organisation Vento Di Terra helped the Jahalin Bedouin community residing in al-Khan al-Ahmar to build the school in 2009 to serve as an alternative to distant schools, the routes to which are both risky and expensive.
Shlomo Lecker, the attorney representing the Jerusalem-based Bedouin community, told Al Jazeera that the Italian ambassador had been summoned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the matter.
“I spoke to the Italian ambassador several days ago after his meeting with Netanyahu,” Lecker told Al Jazeera, adding that the ambassador was informed that an official order was going to be issued to close the school down.
IN PICTURES: When a school is illegal
"In response to these orders, the Palestinian Ministry of Education decided to open the school a week earlier than originally planned. This might make any plans of closure more difficult to carry out."
Starting the school year earlier than scheduled ensures that students are in regular attendance inside the premises, which makes it less likely for Israeli authorities to permanently close the school down.
According to a report released by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, the Israeli Civil Administration, the governing body of Israel's occupation in the West Bank, issued a demolition order one month after the school had been opened in 2009, because it was built near a road to which expansion plans had already been approved.
Nearby Israeli settlements and the Israeli NGO Regavi have petitioned the Supreme Court three times since then, demanding the demolition of the encampments in Khan al-Ahmar, which are home to some 100 families.
READ MORE: Israeli demolitions make more Palestinians homeless
Khalid Quzmar, a lawyer and the general director of Defense for Children International, an organisation advocating for the rights of Palestinian children in the occupied territories, told Al Jazeera that requests for the school's demolition and closure are "part of a wider plan to displace the Jahalin Bedouin".
The school is "essential to the community", Quzmar said.
"There is no justification behind closing down the school. It was built using mud and tyres to avoid breaking laws that prohibit Palestinians from using cement in construction," he added.
"Israeli authorities always claim that buildings are closed down or demolished because they were built without permits. But how are Palestinians going to get permits when Israeli authorities oftentimes refuse to grant them?"
The Jahalin Tribe currently lives on the periphery of Jerusalem, on the West Bank side of the Apartheid Wall. In the early 1950s, the Bedouins were displaced from their land near Tel Arad, in the southern Negev desert. The tribe is the largest refugee tribe in the West Bank today.
In 2013, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to relocate the Jahalin Bedouins to an area near the city of Jericho, where they would be under Palestinian Authority control.
Area C of the occupied West Bank accounts for more than 60 percent of the entirety of the West Bank, and is under full Israeli control. The Civil Administration regulates all Palestinian construction and building within the area.
The Israeli Civil Administration was unavailable for immediate comment when contacted by Al Jazeera.
Israeli army bulldozers, on Wednesday morning, have reportedly leveled Palestinian-owned lands to the south of Hebron province.
A local journalist in Hebron said, according to the PNN, that the Israeli army destroyed a water tank and bulldozed Palestinian lands covering an area of 15 dunams in the western town of Beit Oula, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Over 300 olive trees were planted in the targeted tract. Owned by Palestinian citizen Muhammad al-Amla, the lands, located near the Israeli apartheid wall, were reportedly razed without prior notification.
Army troops went on to chase down Palestinian protesters in the area.
A local journalist in Hebron said, according to the PNN, that the Israeli army destroyed a water tank and bulldozed Palestinian lands covering an area of 15 dunams in the western town of Beit Oula, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Over 300 olive trees were planted in the targeted tract. Owned by Palestinian citizen Muhammad al-Amla, the lands, located near the Israeli apartheid wall, were reportedly razed without prior notification.
Army troops went on to chase down Palestinian protesters in the area.
Israeli Occupation forces (IOF) razed several Palestinian homes and stockyards in Doma and Qusra towns in southern Nablus in the early morning hours of Wednesday and occupied a house in Huwara town.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that Israeli forces escorted by military vehicles raided Doma and Qusra towns after midnight Tuesday and started knocking down Palestinians’ homes under the claim of lacking construction permits.
The PIC reporter revealed that the IOF soldiers handed a notice to Jamal al-Tawil about the intention to confiscate his four-dunum land in al-Marajem hamlet in southern Nablus.
The Israeli troops had razed his home four months ago, the PIC reporter pointed out.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that Israeli forces escorted by military vehicles raided Doma and Qusra towns after midnight Tuesday and started knocking down Palestinians’ homes under the claim of lacking construction permits.
The PIC reporter revealed that the IOF soldiers handed a notice to Jamal al-Tawil about the intention to confiscate his four-dunum land in al-Marajem hamlet in southern Nablus.
The Israeli troops had razed his home four months ago, the PIC reporter pointed out.
16 aug 2016
Israeli military jeeps and bulldozers invaded, Tuesday, the city of Beit Jala, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished two Palestinian homes and a room.
The WAFA News Agency said the soldiers demolished two homes belonging to resident Mohammad Zreina, and his family, adding that each of the demolished buildings was 200 square/meters.
WAFA added that the soldiers also demolished a large room, belonging to the same Palestinian, and that the destructions took place in Dir ‘Oweina area, in Beit Jala.
Mohammad said the two homes, and the room provided shelter to twenty persons, and belonged to him and his five brothers; the family constructed the two homes 25 years ago.
Mohammad also stated that the soldiers bulldozed the lands where the homes stood, and uprooted several trees owned by the family.
The WAFA News Agency said the soldiers demolished two homes belonging to resident Mohammad Zreina, and his family, adding that each of the demolished buildings was 200 square/meters.
WAFA added that the soldiers also demolished a large room, belonging to the same Palestinian, and that the destructions took place in Dir ‘Oweina area, in Beit Jala.
Mohammad said the two homes, and the room provided shelter to twenty persons, and belonged to him and his five brothers; the family constructed the two homes 25 years ago.
Mohammad also stated that the soldiers bulldozed the lands where the homes stood, and uprooted several trees owned by the family.
Israeli military vehicles, and bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday morning the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished eight Palestinian homes. The army also demolished wells in the town.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers surrounded Sa’ir, and declared it a closed military zone before invading it.
The sources added that the soldiers stormed eight homes, forced the families out, and demolished them, in addition to destroying several wells, in Jouret al-Kheil, in Wad Sa’ir area.
The army previously delivered demolition orders targeting the eight homes under the allegation of being built without construction permits from the Israeli side.
The demolished homes belong to Ibrahim Mohammad Shalalda, Ahmad Mohammad Shalalda, Ziad Mahmoud Shalalda, Fares Yassin Shalalda, Nabil Shehada Shalalda, Mahmoud Mohammad Shalalda, Walid Ibrahim Shalalda, and Mustafa Mohammad Shalalda.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers surrounded Sa’ir, and declared it a closed military zone before invading it.
The sources added that the soldiers stormed eight homes, forced the families out, and demolished them, in addition to destroying several wells, in Jouret al-Kheil, in Wad Sa’ir area.
The army previously delivered demolition orders targeting the eight homes under the allegation of being built without construction permits from the Israeli side.
The demolished homes belong to Ibrahim Mohammad Shalalda, Ahmad Mohammad Shalalda, Ziad Mahmoud Shalalda, Fares Yassin Shalalda, Nabil Shehada Shalalda, Mahmoud Mohammad Shalalda, Walid Ibrahim Shalalda, and Mustafa Mohammad Shalalda.
Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday morning demolished, under military protection, an automobile showroom in Anata town, east Jerusalem, at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Bulldozers also razed a horse stable in Mukaber Mount, south Jerusalem, for the same reason.
Local sources said that the car showroom belonged to Zakaria Mousa.
Meanwhile, Israeli military patrols are still stationed at the main entrance to Anata town, intercepting and searching passing vehicles.
Bulldozers also razed a horse stable in Mukaber Mount, south Jerusalem, for the same reason.
Local sources said that the car showroom belonged to Zakaria Mousa.
Meanwhile, Israeli military patrols are still stationed at the main entrance to Anata town, intercepting and searching passing vehicles.
Dozens of Palestinians’ olive trees were abruptly deracinated by Israeli army troops on Tuesday morning in southern Tulkarem province.
A PIC journalist quoted local sources as stating that an Israeli army bulldozer uprooted several olive trees planted on the main access road to Shoufa town, to the south of Tulkarem.
Remarkable damage was inflicted on Palestinians’ olive orchards near the illegal Israeli settlement of Avnei Hefetz.
The locals attributed such procedures to Israeli intents to expand illegal settlement construction in the area at the expense of Palestinians’ own lands.
A PIC journalist quoted local sources as stating that an Israeli army bulldozer uprooted several olive trees planted on the main access road to Shoufa town, to the south of Tulkarem.
Remarkable damage was inflicted on Palestinians’ olive orchards near the illegal Israeli settlement of Avnei Hefetz.
The locals attributed such procedures to Israeli intents to expand illegal settlement construction in the area at the expense of Palestinians’ own lands.