The Israeli authorities on Sunday demolished a Palestinian house in the Druze town of Hurfeish in the Upper Galilee north of Israel at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Local sources said that bulldozers escorted by policemen razed on Sunday morning the house of Rayek Sarhan noting that it was the first time since ages a home belonging to a Palestinian Druze was demolished by the Israeli authorities.
In another incident Palestinian citizens in the Negev village of Umm Hairan frustrated on the same day Israeli attempts to demolish two homes built about 40 years ago in their area.
Mayor of the village Ra’ed Abul-Qiyan said that the Israeli police tried twice to enter their unrecognized area to demolish the homes but the residents managed to fend them off.
Abul-Qiyan expressed fears that the Israeli authorities might use punitive measures against the villagers after they had thwarted the demolitions.
He complained that the Israeli authorities had carried out several demolitions in the village before in order to force the residents to leave the area and then build a Jewish settlement in its place.
