The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday morning demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Wadi al-Awar area south of al-Khalil.
Local official Rateb al-Jabour said that the IOF knocked down a home composed of two rooms in Wadi al-Awar area claiming it was built with no license in Area C of the West Bank.
Meanwhile the IOF also demolished in the morning a plant nursery at the main entrance to Samoa town in southern al-Khalil.
Although the owner of the plant nursery holds license documents from the Palestinian Authority ministry of agriculture the IOF justified its measure by claiming the facility was located near a bypass road used by Jewish settlers.
In another incident the IOF stormed last night Bir al-Basha village in southern Jenin and took measurements of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque seemingly as a prelude to demolishing it.
For decades Israel has pursued a policy of forced eviction and demolition of homes and property of Palestinians living under occupation in different areas of Palestine especially in the West Bank Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands.
In recent years the scale of the destruction carried out by the Israeli army in the occupied territories has reached an unprecedented level. The victims are often amongst the poorest and most disadvantaged in the Palestinian society.
Most of the houses demolished by the Israeli army in the occupied territories were the homes of refugee families who were expelled by armed Jewish gangs or who fled in the war that followed the creation of Israel in 1948.
