31 dec 2014
The Israeli Supreme Court ratifies on Wednesday night the decisions of demolishing the houses of four Jerusalemites Martyrs in Jabal Al-Mukabber and Shu’fat refugee camp. The court refused the appeal submitted by the families’ lawyer under the pretext of “carrying out terrorist attacks in the city of Jerusalem” that led to the death of “innocent” people and as a means to deter other young men.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the Israeli Supreme Court ratified the demolition of the family house of the Martyr Mohammad Ja’abees in Jabal Al-Mukabber, the house of the Martyr Ibrahim Al-Akari and the houses of the two Martyrs from Abu Al-Jamal family (Ghassan and Odai) in Jabal Al-Mukabber.
The Israeli authorities issued military decision to demolish the houses of people that carry out attacks in the city of Jerusalem and handed the families those orders back in November. The families’ lawyer appealed the decision in the Supreme Court which made its decision last Wednesday and rejected the appeal.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the Israeli Supreme Court ratified the demolition of the family house of the Martyr Mohammad Ja’abees in Jabal Al-Mukabber, the house of the Martyr Ibrahim Al-Akari and the houses of the two Martyrs from Abu Al-Jamal family (Ghassan and Odai) in Jabal Al-Mukabber.
The Israeli authorities issued military decision to demolish the houses of people that carry out attacks in the city of Jerusalem and handed the families those orders back in November. The families’ lawyer appealed the decision in the Supreme Court which made its decision last Wednesday and rejected the appeal.
Israeli soldiers demolished, Tuesday, five homes in a number of villages in what Israel calls “unrecognized villages” in the Negev, although these communities have existed way before Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine.
The Maan News agency has reported that the homes have been demolished in Tal as-Sabe’ village, Um Btein, ‘Ararat an-Naqab and Kaseefa, after the soldiers stormed them, and forcibly removed the families.
The residents never received demolition orders from the army; several families, with children and elderly, have been rendered homeless.
Official statistics revealed that Israel demolished more than 1100 homes in the Negev in 2014.
The destruction of the village comes part of what Israel dubs as “The Negev Development Plan," which aims to build Jewish settlements and shopping centers after removing and relocating the Bedouins from their villages, unrecognized by Tel Aviv, although they have been there before Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine in 1948.
On Monday morning, November 17, several Israeli military and police vehicles, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded the Bedouin village of al-‘Araqib, in the Negev, and demolished it for the 78th time.
Protests in the Negev, the West Bank, and Gaza against the Begin-Prawer plan
The Maan News agency has reported that the homes have been demolished in Tal as-Sabe’ village, Um Btein, ‘Ararat an-Naqab and Kaseefa, after the soldiers stormed them, and forcibly removed the families.
The residents never received demolition orders from the army; several families, with children and elderly, have been rendered homeless.
Official statistics revealed that Israel demolished more than 1100 homes in the Negev in 2014.
The destruction of the village comes part of what Israel dubs as “The Negev Development Plan," which aims to build Jewish settlements and shopping centers after removing and relocating the Bedouins from their villages, unrecognized by Tel Aviv, although they have been there before Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine in 1948.
On Monday morning, November 17, several Israeli military and police vehicles, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded the Bedouin village of al-‘Araqib, in the Negev, and demolished it for the 78th time.
Protests in the Negev, the West Bank, and Gaza against the Begin-Prawer plan
30 dec 2014
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Tuesday morning, two Palestinian homes in Jabal al-Mokabber neighborhood, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, after surrounding the entire area.
The demolished homes belong to residents Khaled al-Halasa and ‘Emad Abu Mayyala. Each home is 100 square/meters one floor building, the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said.
The two families have recently finished the construction of their homes, and were preparing to move in.
Local sources said that dozens of soldiers, police officers and personnel of the Jerusalem city council, accompanied by a number of bulldozers and armored vehicles, invaded the area, and demolished the two homes.
The army claims the homes have been built without construction permits.
On Wednesday, December 24, the army demolished a barn in the at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem, and a wall surrounding a Palestinian land in Mount of Olives area.
The demolition of homes and civilian property is an act of collective punishment that violates International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory, and all related humanitarian treaties.
The demolished homes belong to residents Khaled al-Halasa and ‘Emad Abu Mayyala. Each home is 100 square/meters one floor building, the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said.
The two families have recently finished the construction of their homes, and were preparing to move in.
Local sources said that dozens of soldiers, police officers and personnel of the Jerusalem city council, accompanied by a number of bulldozers and armored vehicles, invaded the area, and demolished the two homes.
The army claims the homes have been built without construction permits.
On Wednesday, December 24, the army demolished a barn in the at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem, and a wall surrounding a Palestinian land in Mount of Olives area.
The demolition of homes and civilian property is an act of collective punishment that violates International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory, and all related humanitarian treaties.
The Israeli war minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered the civil administration office to legalize the El Matan illegal settlement outpost, built on Palestinian lands in the central West Bank district of Salfit.
Researcher Khaled Maali said the El Matan settlement outpost was declared an Israeli settlement some couple of months ago, raising the total number of illegal Israeli settlements in Salfit to 24.
Historiographers said Ya’alon’s declaration comes as part of his electoral campaign and as a provocative response to the Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli Wala website said Ya’alon’s instructions were issued in the aftermath of an act of hurling a Molotov cocktail on a settler’s vehicle in the area last week.
Some couple of months ago the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) seized 100 dunums of Palestinian land lots in Wadi Qana west of Dir Istia, declared a nature reserve in an attempt to annex it to the El Matan settlement outpost to set the stage for legalizing it.
The El Matan settlement outpost was constructed in 2000 near the so-called Nahal Knah nature reserve after having forced Palestinian farmers out of the area under pretext of being part of the region’s natural heritage.
Researcher Khaled Maali said the El Matan settlement outpost was declared an Israeli settlement some couple of months ago, raising the total number of illegal Israeli settlements in Salfit to 24.
Historiographers said Ya’alon’s declaration comes as part of his electoral campaign and as a provocative response to the Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli Wala website said Ya’alon’s instructions were issued in the aftermath of an act of hurling a Molotov cocktail on a settler’s vehicle in the area last week.
Some couple of months ago the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) seized 100 dunums of Palestinian land lots in Wadi Qana west of Dir Istia, declared a nature reserve in an attempt to annex it to the El Matan settlement outpost to set the stage for legalizing it.
The El Matan settlement outpost was constructed in 2000 near the so-called Nahal Knah nature reserve after having forced Palestinian farmers out of the area under pretext of being part of the region’s natural heritage.
29 dec 2014
Hebron school employees ill after opening suspicious package
Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with unnecessary violence.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Aqraba, Yousif Dirieh, told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that Israeli bulldozers razed several dunams of land planted with wheat crops in the locale, destroying the harvest.
Soldiers also set up earth mounds in the area, as a prelude for military training exercises.
Israeli forces follow a systematic policy of targeting agricultural land that is considered to be the main livelihood of Palestinians, as an attempt to force residents to leave their land, for the benefit of settlement expansion.
The occupied West Bank is also a scene of frequent settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assaults on farmers, in addition to crop theft and/or destruction, which is often done under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
WAFA notes that settler attacks against Palestinian farmers increase significantly during the olive harvest season.
Farmers often complain of sewage water pumped from nearby settlements into their land, thus destroying their crops.
The PNN reports that eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds, Sunday, complained about factories in the industrial zone of "Burkhan" Israeli settlement, near Salfit, in the northern West Bank, as settlers routinely dump their waste-water into the region's valleys over the weekend.
Researcher Khaled Ma'ali said that the waste-water from Borkan factory is not poured gradually but, rather, all at once.
The four industrial zones pouring the "skunk water" into the Salfit valleys are located in Ariel, Borkan, Amanoel and Zahav illegal settlements, according to eyewitnesses.
Ma'ali assured that the environmental pollution caused by the settlements' industrial zones takes long years to recover, and will cause extensive environmental destruction.
He is calling on environment organizations to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the damage it is causing, and to compensate those affected.
Related: Israeli Police Adopt New Crowd Control Method in Jerusalem
Furthermore, on Sunday, Israeli soldiers violently raided a boys’ school in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in search of two students.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of soldiers raided the school yard and the principal’s office in a brutal manner, in search of the two students, spreading panic and fear among other students.
The teaching staff prevented the soldiers from coming near the students, however, and forced them out of the school.
Israeli forces often target schools and other educational facilities and tends to use excessive force against students and teaching staff, in further violation of international law.
“Fifty-eight education-related incidents affecting 11,935 children were reported in the West Bank in 2013, resulting in damage to school facilities, interruption of classes and injury to children,” according to the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
The organization reported that “forty-one incidents involved Israeli security forces operations near or inside schools, forced entry without forewarning, the firing of tear gas canisters and sound bombs into school yards and, in some cases, structural damage to schools.”
In related news, the principal of al-Hussein Ibn Ali school, in Hebron, as well as the school secretary and janitor have fallen ill after receiving a suspicious package on Sunday, a local official said.
Director of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Education Bassam Tahboub told Ma'an News Agency that the three employees began suffering from nausea and dizziness immediately after opening an envelope that had arrived from Italy.
"When the school principal, Abd al-Muati Abu Sneina, opened it in the presence of secretary Fadi Shehada and janitor Nidal al-Qawasmi, they all started to sneeze in an unusual way and they had nausea and dizziness before they were evacuated to the public hospital of Hebron," he said.
Director of the area's public hospital, Abdullah al-Qawasmi, said that the three would remain in the hospital for follow up, though he confirmed that the three are in stable condition.
They are suffering from agitation and continuous sneezing caused by a "gluey material wrapped in cellophane inside the envelope," he further stated.
The material has been sent to governmental laboratories to be tested, while Palestinian security services have launched an investigation into the incident.
The case is the third of its kind in Hebron in recent weeks.
See also: 12/10/14 Mayor of Hebron Sent Toxic Substance and Death Threats
Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with unnecessary violence.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Aqraba, Yousif Dirieh, told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that Israeli bulldozers razed several dunams of land planted with wheat crops in the locale, destroying the harvest.
Soldiers also set up earth mounds in the area, as a prelude for military training exercises.
Israeli forces follow a systematic policy of targeting agricultural land that is considered to be the main livelihood of Palestinians, as an attempt to force residents to leave their land, for the benefit of settlement expansion.
The occupied West Bank is also a scene of frequent settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assaults on farmers, in addition to crop theft and/or destruction, which is often done under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
WAFA notes that settler attacks against Palestinian farmers increase significantly during the olive harvest season.
Farmers often complain of sewage water pumped from nearby settlements into their land, thus destroying their crops.
The PNN reports that eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds, Sunday, complained about factories in the industrial zone of "Burkhan" Israeli settlement, near Salfit, in the northern West Bank, as settlers routinely dump their waste-water into the region's valleys over the weekend.
Researcher Khaled Ma'ali said that the waste-water from Borkan factory is not poured gradually but, rather, all at once.
The four industrial zones pouring the "skunk water" into the Salfit valleys are located in Ariel, Borkan, Amanoel and Zahav illegal settlements, according to eyewitnesses.
Ma'ali assured that the environmental pollution caused by the settlements' industrial zones takes long years to recover, and will cause extensive environmental destruction.
He is calling on environment organizations to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the damage it is causing, and to compensate those affected.
Related: Israeli Police Adopt New Crowd Control Method in Jerusalem
Furthermore, on Sunday, Israeli soldiers violently raided a boys’ school in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in search of two students.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of soldiers raided the school yard and the principal’s office in a brutal manner, in search of the two students, spreading panic and fear among other students.
The teaching staff prevented the soldiers from coming near the students, however, and forced them out of the school.
Israeli forces often target schools and other educational facilities and tends to use excessive force against students and teaching staff, in further violation of international law.
“Fifty-eight education-related incidents affecting 11,935 children were reported in the West Bank in 2013, resulting in damage to school facilities, interruption of classes and injury to children,” according to the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
The organization reported that “forty-one incidents involved Israeli security forces operations near or inside schools, forced entry without forewarning, the firing of tear gas canisters and sound bombs into school yards and, in some cases, structural damage to schools.”
In related news, the principal of al-Hussein Ibn Ali school, in Hebron, as well as the school secretary and janitor have fallen ill after receiving a suspicious package on Sunday, a local official said.
Director of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Education Bassam Tahboub told Ma'an News Agency that the three employees began suffering from nausea and dizziness immediately after opening an envelope that had arrived from Italy.
"When the school principal, Abd al-Muati Abu Sneina, opened it in the presence of secretary Fadi Shehada and janitor Nidal al-Qawasmi, they all started to sneeze in an unusual way and they had nausea and dizziness before they were evacuated to the public hospital of Hebron," he said.
Director of the area's public hospital, Abdullah al-Qawasmi, said that the three would remain in the hospital for follow up, though he confirmed that the three are in stable condition.
They are suffering from agitation and continuous sneezing caused by a "gluey material wrapped in cellophane inside the envelope," he further stated.
The material has been sent to governmental laboratories to be tested, while Palestinian security services have launched an investigation into the incident.
The case is the third of its kind in Hebron in recent weeks.
See also: 12/10/14 Mayor of Hebron Sent Toxic Substance and Death Threats
28 dec 2014
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) tore down the symbolic village of Ziyad Abu Ein erected by Palestinian activists south of Bethlehem only hours after its establishment on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the Israeli soldiers cordoned off the area before breaking into the makeshift village and violently dismantling the tents following a scuffle with the activists, one of whom was injured in his hand.
The activists had earlier pitched tents on land threatened with confiscation by Jewish settlers in Beit Fajjar village and called it Marty Ziyad Abu Ein after the Palestinian minister, who was killed by IOF soldiers.
The witnesses pointed out that the soldiers blocked western entrance of Beit Fajjar village during the process.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the Israeli soldiers cordoned off the area before breaking into the makeshift village and violently dismantling the tents following a scuffle with the activists, one of whom was injured in his hand.
The activists had earlier pitched tents on land threatened with confiscation by Jewish settlers in Beit Fajjar village and called it Marty Ziyad Abu Ein after the Palestinian minister, who was killed by IOF soldiers.
The witnesses pointed out that the soldiers blocked western entrance of Beit Fajjar village during the process.
A group of Palestinian popular resistance activists set up a so-called Ziad Abu Ein village in a move aimed at paying homage to the Palestinian minister killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in a West Bank protest near Ramallah city a few weeks ago.
Coordinator for the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement in Bethlehem, Hassan Brijiah, told the Quds Press that dozens of Palestinian activists on Saturday pitched tents over lands misappropriated by the Israeli Etzion settlers and set up a village nicknamed Ziad Abu Ein.
Troops of the Israeli occupation police suddenly broke into the village and cordoned it off, Brijiah added.
He said the number of Palestinian sit-inners at the tents has been on the rise as Palestinians have flocked from different cities of the West Bank to voice their firm rebuff of Israel’s illegal confiscation of Palestinians’ land tracts in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
The move makes part of a popular attempt to commemorate the death of the Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein, following whose murder tension soared across the West Bank.
Minister Abu Ein was pushed and shoved to death by the IOF on December 10 during a peaceful anti-settlement rally staged north of Ramallah city.
Coordinator for the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement in Bethlehem, Hassan Brijiah, told the Quds Press that dozens of Palestinian activists on Saturday pitched tents over lands misappropriated by the Israeli Etzion settlers and set up a village nicknamed Ziad Abu Ein.
Troops of the Israeli occupation police suddenly broke into the village and cordoned it off, Brijiah added.
He said the number of Palestinian sit-inners at the tents has been on the rise as Palestinians have flocked from different cities of the West Bank to voice their firm rebuff of Israel’s illegal confiscation of Palestinians’ land tracts in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
The move makes part of a popular attempt to commemorate the death of the Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein, following whose murder tension soared across the West Bank.
Minister Abu Ein was pushed and shoved to death by the IOF on December 10 during a peaceful anti-settlement rally staged north of Ramallah city.
26 dec 2014
Ahrar Center for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights said that Israeli forces seized about 70,000 shekels after breaking into home of 52-year-old Ahmed Shubeiri, in Qarboun village, near occupied Nablus.
According to the PNN, Ahmed is father of Ali Shubeiri, who has been imprisoned for over a year now.
The family told Ahrar that soldiers brutally broke into and raided their house after midnight, claiming that they were searching for arms.
University student Abdullah Shubeiri, age 20, was abducted and taken to an unknown destination.
The family said that the soldiers took from them 7,000 Jordanian dinar and 25,000 Israeli shekels, amounting to some 70,000 shekels total.
Ahrar's director, Fuad Al-Khuffash, condemned the action, saying that it was actually theft and not the first incident of of its kind among Israeli soldiers.
According to the PNN, Ahmed is father of Ali Shubeiri, who has been imprisoned for over a year now.
The family told Ahrar that soldiers brutally broke into and raided their house after midnight, claiming that they were searching for arms.
University student Abdullah Shubeiri, age 20, was abducted and taken to an unknown destination.
The family said that the soldiers took from them 7,000 Jordanian dinar and 25,000 Israeli shekels, amounting to some 70,000 shekels total.
Ahrar's director, Fuad Al-Khuffash, condemned the action, saying that it was actually theft and not the first incident of of its kind among Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs has allocated 7 million shekels to renovate what they call the tomb of prophet Samuel area in Occupied Jerusalem which is in fact the Burj Al Nawatir village mosque and its surroundings.
The Israeli army completely closed the mosque area and its endowment lands using barbed wire and set up a checkpoint at the entrance to interrogate Muslims when they come to perform prayers.
Since 1967, the village has been subject to demolition, displacement and siege campaigns and only a quarter of its population (258 persons) are still living close to it after it was torn down under the pretext of saving rare monuments in 1971.
Emek Shaveh, an Israeli organization specialized in the role of archaeology in the society and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, confirmed that the archaeological diggings that have been taking place since 1992 haven't shown any evidence of Jewish monuments. The organization further added in a study that all the monuments found in the village are Islamic; most importantly a historical mosque.
Yonatan Mizrahi, the supervisor of the study, admitted that: "Israel is committing violations in prophet Samuel tomb for expansion ambitions and controlling desires"
Samuel Mosque is an ancient Ottoman mosque and an Islamic endowment that includes agricultural lands, and its location is strategic as it views Jerusalem and the whole Palestinian coast.
The Palestinian Ministry of Endowment considered the Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) decision to annex Prophet Samuel mosque to the Israeli Park Service "a continuation of the religious persecution practiced by Israel against the Islamic and Christian sanctities in the Palestinian territories"
The ministry also pointed out that the Israeli scheme to build a Talmudic school and settlement outposts by controlling this Islamic sacred region is a clear evidence of the Israeli attempts to falsify the history.
The ministry confirmed that it will exert every effort to bring the ownership of the mosque back to the Islamic endowments in Palestine and will inform all international cultural and religious institutions of this flagrant violation of the Muslims' feelings.
For its part, the Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage has warned of the Judaization practices carried out in the mosque like turning the basement of the mosque into a synagogue.
In a related context, the foundation also warned of the schemes that aim to seize the houses in the village, as Israel's TV Channel 1 broadcasted a report few days ago claiming that many houses in the village were "bought" at high prices by Israeli individuals bodies.
In 1995, the IOA converted about (3500 acres) of the village lands to a "national park" in an attempt to invest the lands of the village as it attracts visitors and foreign tourists. Ever since then, the deported village residents have been prevented from farming their lands and herding their sheep. Moreover, Prophet Samuel residents are not allowed to enter Jerusalem and they have to take long bypass roads so as to enter the two adjacent villages Beit Iksa and al-Jib because of the walls and the barriers.
The Israeli army completely closed the mosque area and its endowment lands using barbed wire and set up a checkpoint at the entrance to interrogate Muslims when they come to perform prayers.
Since 1967, the village has been subject to demolition, displacement and siege campaigns and only a quarter of its population (258 persons) are still living close to it after it was torn down under the pretext of saving rare monuments in 1971.
Emek Shaveh, an Israeli organization specialized in the role of archaeology in the society and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, confirmed that the archaeological diggings that have been taking place since 1992 haven't shown any evidence of Jewish monuments. The organization further added in a study that all the monuments found in the village are Islamic; most importantly a historical mosque.
Yonatan Mizrahi, the supervisor of the study, admitted that: "Israel is committing violations in prophet Samuel tomb for expansion ambitions and controlling desires"
Samuel Mosque is an ancient Ottoman mosque and an Islamic endowment that includes agricultural lands, and its location is strategic as it views Jerusalem and the whole Palestinian coast.
The Palestinian Ministry of Endowment considered the Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) decision to annex Prophet Samuel mosque to the Israeli Park Service "a continuation of the religious persecution practiced by Israel against the Islamic and Christian sanctities in the Palestinian territories"
The ministry also pointed out that the Israeli scheme to build a Talmudic school and settlement outposts by controlling this Islamic sacred region is a clear evidence of the Israeli attempts to falsify the history.
The ministry confirmed that it will exert every effort to bring the ownership of the mosque back to the Islamic endowments in Palestine and will inform all international cultural and religious institutions of this flagrant violation of the Muslims' feelings.
For its part, the Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage has warned of the Judaization practices carried out in the mosque like turning the basement of the mosque into a synagogue.
In a related context, the foundation also warned of the schemes that aim to seize the houses in the village, as Israel's TV Channel 1 broadcasted a report few days ago claiming that many houses in the village were "bought" at high prices by Israeli individuals bodies.
In 1995, the IOA converted about (3500 acres) of the village lands to a "national park" in an attempt to invest the lands of the village as it attracts visitors and foreign tourists. Ever since then, the deported village residents have been prevented from farming their lands and herding their sheep. Moreover, Prophet Samuel residents are not allowed to enter Jerusalem and they have to take long bypass roads so as to enter the two adjacent villages Beit Iksa and al-Jib because of the walls and the barriers.
Israeli forces demolished six EU-funded irrigation pools used by Palestinian farmers in the northern Jordan Valley, on Thursday, locals told Ma'an News Agency.
Israeli military vehicles accompanied by bulldozers arrived in al-Jiftlik, where they demolished the pools used by Palestinian farmers, under pretext of "military order".
The construction of the pools was reportedly funded by grants from European donor countries.
The Jordan Valley makes up around 30 percent of the occupied West Bank, with over 90 percent of the area designated as Area C and off-limits to Palestinian construction.
Israeli military vehicles accompanied by bulldozers arrived in al-Jiftlik, where they demolished the pools used by Palestinian farmers, under pretext of "military order".
The construction of the pools was reportedly funded by grants from European donor countries.
The Jordan Valley makes up around 30 percent of the occupied West Bank, with over 90 percent of the area designated as Area C and off-limits to Palestinian construction.
25 dec 2014
Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed a dairy factory in the Hebron village of al-Burj, the owner told Ma'an.
Yasser Muhammad Salim Masharqa said that Israeli forces and civil administration officers escorted two bulldozers to the village and demolised the steel structure, which measures 2000 square meters.
Cements rooms measuring 400 square meters were also destroyed.
The factory is located near the separation wall in the southwest of the Hebron district.
The owner was not allowed to remove machinery from the factory before the demolition.
Israel has demolished at least 359 Palestinian structures in the West Bank so far in 2014, according to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
Yasser Muhammad Salim Masharqa said that Israeli forces and civil administration officers escorted two bulldozers to the village and demolised the steel structure, which measures 2000 square meters.
Cements rooms measuring 400 square meters were also destroyed.
The factory is located near the separation wall in the southwest of the Hebron district.
The owner was not allowed to remove machinery from the factory before the demolition.
Israel has demolished at least 359 Palestinian structures in the West Bank so far in 2014, according to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.