The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) had approved 35 Palestinian structures in C areas of the West Bank and gave demolition orders to over 2000 other structures during the past three years the Israeli daily Haaretz said on Tuesday.
Haaretz said the number of Palestinian structures demolished is 18 times more than those approved.
According to the information from the Civil administration in 2014 nine building permits were approved. In 2015 seven were approved and in 2016 only 37 were approved. In exchange 2000 demolition orders were given 983 of them have already been carried out.
The Civil Administration said that it has no information on the number of permits given to Israeli settlements because they are not responsible for that issue. However it said that in 2014 865 demolition orders have been given to settlement units and only 438 of them have been demolished.
Area C constitutes over 60% of the occupied West Bank and falls under Israeli Civil and Military control. Israel continues to demolish Palestinians homes in the area in favor of Israeli illegal settlements that are deemed illegitimate under international law.
