WEST BANK, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out on Wednesday 21 house demolition operations in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem, in addition to a house in 1948 occupied Palestine.
The IOF demolished four houses east of the city of Jericho under the pretext of lacking construction permits.
In the town of Bitello, west of Ramallah, Israeli bulldozers knocked down a house that belongs to citizen Muhammad Wajih Bazar, which consisted of three floors, each of which was about 200 square meters in area.
Meanwhile, Israeli municipality teams in Jerusalem demolished a house owned by the Palestinian Abu Subeih family in Wadi Qaddum neighborhood in the town of Silwan.
In al-Khalil, the IOF razed 11 houses and other facilities for Al-Hathalin family in Um Al-Khair community in Masafer Yatta, south of the city.
In the city of Kafr Qara, within the territories of 1948 Occupied Palestine, Israeli bulldozers demolished an under-construction house for lacking a construction permit.
During the past month of May alone, Israeli occupation authorities carried out 47 demolition operations in the West Bank, affecting 66 facilities, including 35 inhabited homes, five uninhabited houses, and 15 agricultural and other facilities.
As part of the Israeli displacement and settlement plans, Israeli occupation authorities have further escalated its home demolition and displacement policy in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the 1948 occupied territories since the start of the Israel bloody aggression on the Gaza Strip.
