The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) ordered the demolition of four Palestinian under-construction houses in the town of Rujeib east of Nablus on Monday.
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the town accompanied by Civil Administration crews and handed four citizens orders to stop the construction of their houses for allegedly being built in Israeli-controlled Area C.
Rujeib is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank located 3 kilometers southeast of Nablus.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) the town had a population of 3915 inhabitants in mid-2006.
After the 1995 Oslo accord 28% of Rujeib’s lands were classified as Area B the remaining 72% as Area C. Israel has confiscated 169 dunums of land from Rujeib for construction of the Israeli settlement of Itamar.
The village is routinely subjected to systematic settler attacks aimed to expel its residents in favor of Itamar settlement expansion plan.
