NABLUS, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished on Thursday morning a two-story house in Nablus in the northern West Bank.
The IOF, escorted by two military bulldozers, raided the town of Yetma in Nablus and forced the citizen Baraa Ismail to evacuate his two-story house, before proceeding to knock it down.
The head of the Yetma village council, Ahmed Snober, said that this was the second time in which the IOF demolished the house.
Snober pointed out that the IOF had recently handed home demolition notices to 170 houses in the town of Yetma, under the pretext of construction within Area C territories, elaborating that most of the town’s lands are classified as Area C, highlighting that two homes were demolished in the past two months.
Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers demolished a mosque in the village of Um al-Hairan in the Negev, the last structure demolished in the village after the displacement of its people.
Human rights sources reported that the Israeli authorities were terrorizing the residents of the village, noting that they arrested three of its citizens and raided the village several times and threatened the inhabitants.
The sources pointed out that the Abu al-Qi’an family were forced to demolish their homes and evacuate the village.
The residents of the villages of Um al-Hairan along with eleven other villages in the Negev region face the risk of forced displacement, as the Israeli authorities seek to turn the villages into Jewish-only settlements.
