WEST BANK, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) knocked down five Palestinian homes in Bethlehem and four facilities in Jerusalem on Monday, while Israeli settlers burned agricultural lands in northern West Bank.
The head of the Al-Walaja Village Council in Bethlehem, Khader Al-Araj, said that the IOF stormed the Al-Maqbara neighborhood in the Ain Jwiza area, and demolished four homes belonging to four siblings of Abu Al-Tin family, each of which had an area of 100 square meters.
In the morning, the IOF demolished a house belonging to Fadi Abu Rizq (85 square meters) in the same area.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces also demolished four facilities in Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem.
In parallel with the massive destruction of homes, buildings and facilities in the Gaza Strip, demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Jerusalem have escalated, especially in Area C, which constitutes about 60% of the West Bank’s area.
In another crime, Israeli fanatic settlers burned on Monday Palestinian agricultural lands in the northern West Bank.
For his part, the anti-settlement activist, Bashar Al-Qaryouti, said that a group of settlers attacked a gathering of Palestinian Bedouins near the town of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, to the south of Nablus, and attacked the residents and set fire to dozens of dunums of Palestinian agricultural lands, leading to confrontations.
On Monday morning, the IOF carried out a series of raids into cities and towns in the West Bank, accompanied by arrests and destruction of Palestinian property, according to eyewitnesses.
