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Azzun Atma villagers receive Israeli demolition and stop-work orders

Wednesday 14-July-2021

The Israeli occupation army on Tuesday delivered demolition and stop-work notices to three Palestinian citizens in Azzun Atma village south of Qalqilya.

According to local sources Israeli forces handed one citizen a stop-work order against his unfinished house and demolition notices against two agricultural structures belonging to other villagers.

The Israeli army justified its practice by claiming it was intended to stop the destruction of antiquities.

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has seized over 70 percent of agricultural land belonging to Azzun Atma village since it built the separation wall in the area in 2003.

The IOA had already taken over about 5000 dunums of cultivated land belonging to local farmers and other dunums of land near the village in order to build the illegal settlement of Oranit.

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