WEST BANK, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished on Wednesday Palestinian houses and facilities in Ramallah and Central Jordan Valley, amid seizure of dozens of dunums of agricultural land.
Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers knocked down a residential building under construction, a warehouse, owned by Abed Saadat Estaih, and an automobile repair shop, owned by Muhammad Qasim Qadah, west of Ramallah.
The IOF also bulldozed agricultural lands adjacent to the apartheid wall near Deir Qaddis town in Ramallah, the sources added.
Israeli military vehicles destroyed a number of parked cars on the main street in Ni’lin, closed the roads leading to Ni’lin and Deir Qaddis towns and blocked movement.
The IOF soldiers who were stationed near Deir Qaddis Boys’ Secondary School took the roof tops of residential buildings in the area, causing panic among students, and attacking them on their way home from school.
Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers began demolishing residential facilities in the village of Al-Jiftlik in Central Jordan Valley, under the pretext of lacking a construction permit.
Settlement plans
On the other hand, the Settlement and Wall Department in Qalqilya Governorate revealed, on Wednesday, a new Jewish settlement plan to seize 104 dunums of land located behind the separation and apartheid wall south of Qalqilya.
The department reported that the plan aims to seize lands planted with olive trees from the villages of Seniriya and Masha, south of Qalqiliya, for the construction of about 250 settlement units in the Jewish settlement, which is located on the lands of Qalqiliya and Salfit.
The IOF also seized another piece of land to build a settlers-only road in the town of Tequ, southeast of Bethlehem.
The director of the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, Hassan Brejiyah, reported that the IOF seized on Wednesday five dunums in the area to open a road, linking the “Izdbar” and “Nokdim” settlements located on Palestinians’ lands.
