The Israeli occupation army delivered on Tuesday stop-work orders against 20 Palestinian homes and structures in the West Bank as a prelude to demolishing them later.
According to local sources employees from the Israeli army escorted by soldiers stormed Umm Lasafa village in Masafer Yatta south of al-Khalil and handed two citizens notices ordering them to halt building their houses.
Another citizen in the village also received a stop-work order against a water well he was building.
In Salfit the Israeli army delivered 17 stop-work orders against seven inhabited homes five houses under construction and five agricultural structures in Deir Ballut village.
