The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) handed Palestinian citizens military notices on Monday ordering them to stop construction on six houses and threatening to demolish a nature reserve in Masafer Yatta area south of al-Khalil.
According to local sources employees from the Israeli army’s civil administration escorted by soldiers handed six citizens from the family of Najada stop-work orders against their homes in al-Badiya area in the east of Masafer Yatta. Some of these homes are inhabited.
The IOF also delivered a military order threatening to destroy the Khilat al-Daba nature reserve in Masafer Yatta and giving the local residents 96 hours to evacuate their homes and leave the area.
The Israeli high court of justice issued last May a ruling permitting the Israeli army to displace hundreds of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta and use the area as a military training zone.
Meanwhile the police chief of the settlements council ordered on the same day a Palestinian citizen in Kardala village in the northern Jordan Valley to remove plastic houses stretching over four dunums of land belonging to him.
The Israeli army also delivered stop-work and demolition orders against agricultural and livestock structures belonging to Palestinian citizens in the hamlets of Einun and Yarza southeast of Tubas.
In a separate incident the Israeli high court approved on Monday the demolition of a house belonging to Palestinian prisoner Subhi Subaihat in Rummanah village west of Jenin City.
Subaihat is accused of killing three Israelis and wounding others in the stabbing operation that he and another prisoner called Asaad al-Rifa’ie carried out in Elad City near Tel Aviv on May 5 2022.
