Israel demolishes 12 buildings in al Quds, WB

Israeli authorities demolished 12 structures for lack of building permits in Area C and East Jerusalem, displacing 22 people including nine children and otherwise affecting over 120, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday.

Three of the targeted structures were donor-funded emergency shelters provided in response to previous demolitions in the herding community of Um al Kheir (Hebron). 

In another incident, the authorities destroyed the unpaved base coarse covering part of a road serving the community of al Mas'udiya (Nablus).

In Bani Na’im village (Hebron), Israeli forces destroyed with explosives the family home of the Palestinian boy who stabbed and killed an Israeli girl in the settlement of Kiryat ‘Arba on 30 June, and was killed during the attack. 

Nine people, including four children, were displaced and twenty nearby houses sustained damage, due to the explosion.

Israeli forces opened the main entrance to Bani Na’im (Hebron), which has been blocked for vehicular movement since the above mentioned attack, and restored the 2,800 work permits, as well as family visits to Israeli prisons, which had been suspended. 

Israeli authorities uprooted 290 Palestinian-owned olive trees in Iskaka (Salfit) and Khallet an Nahla (Bethlehem) villages on grounds that these areas are designated as “state land”. 

The latter area is reportedly under planning for the establishment of a large settlement (known as Giv’at Eitam), pending a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court on a petition challenging the status of the land.

Source: MENA