Increase in the demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank
The occupation has demolished 892 facilities since the beginning of 2020
Last November, 201 facilities were demolished.
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Researcher in the Department of Labor and Planning Muhammad Al-Hroub.
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Khirbet Humsa was completely removed due to the demolitions.
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The demolitions left dozens of families homeless.
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41 children in Khirbet Hamsa were displaced due to the demolition of their homes.
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The cities of the West Bank are witnessing a dangerous increase in the demolition of Palestinian homes, especially those close to the occupation settlements, which has caused the displacement of hundreds of families who have lost their only shelter that has held them for many years, while a Palestinian family receives a notice of demolishing their home in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. For security reasons, the Israeli occupation forces demolished the house of another family in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, under the pretext of building without a permit.
The Palestinian Settlement and Wall Resistance Authority confirms that house demolitions in 2020 witnessed an increase compared to previous years.
wide range
Muhammad Al-Hroub, a researcher in the Department of Labor and Planning at the Abdullah Al-Hourani Center for Studies and Documentation, told Al-Emarat Al-Youm: “The occupation demolished from the beginning of this year until the end of last November, 892 facilities, including 331 houses and 561 agricultural and service commercial establishments.”
"By comparing these figures and facts with the previous year for the same period, we see a 31% increase in demolitions until the end of November," he added.
Al-Hroub explains that most of the demolitions were concentrated in the Hebron governorate, which accounted for 20% of the total demolitions, pointing out that last November alone recorded the demolition of 201 facilities.
It shows that the current demolitions are concentrated in the areas of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and the Palestinian Jordan Valley areas extending from the north of Jericho to the northern Jordan Valley, adding that “the occupation seeks to target all that is Palestinian in these areas, as they are vast areas and most of their inhabitants are Bedouins and farmers, which are the areas. The same one that seeks to resolve its fate by emptying its residents and establishing new settlements and a road network.
Al-Hroub continues, saying: “For that purpose, the occupation moved from a policy of individual demolition of homes and facilities to a policy of demolishing entire Palestinian communities, just as it happened in the Homs community in the northern Jordan Valley, as the mechanisms removed the gathering from the map and completely destroyed it, and there are demolition orders for communities. Others, awaiting their inevitable fate, such as the village of Susiya in the south of Hebron and Al-Farsiya in the northern Jordan Valley. ”
The researcher in the Department of Labor and Planning notes that this year witnessed the targeting of new areas in the demolition department, such as the town of Beit Awa and Deir Samet, west of Hebron, and the town of Deir Diwan, east of Ramallah, and Khirbet Jabara, south of Tulkarm, indicating that the reason for targeting these areas is their proximity From the apartheid wall, or trying to control its lands adjacent to the Jordan Valley.
In order to accelerate the demolition operations, the occupation activated Military Order No. 1797, which enables the occupation army to implement demolition orders within 96 hours, without giving the Palestinians the opportunity to object to the courts, as it did a military decision to demolish all installations within 250 meters of the Apartheid Wall. According to the researcher Al-Hroub.
Families are displaced
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 869 Palestinians became homeless in the current year 2020, due to Israel's destruction of property, the largest number since 2016. The OCHA office stated in a monitoring report on the latest developments in settlement and demolitions. The largest demolition carried out by the occupation in years was recorded on the third day of last November, when the occupation destroyed 83 buildings in the Homsa community in the West Bank, which led to the displacement of 73 people, including 41 children.
On Monday, the seventh of December, the occupation forces carried out large-scale demolitions of Palestinian homes and civilian facilities in the town of Al-Auja, north of the Palestinian Jordan Valley in the West Bank, leaving dozens homeless.
The mayor of Al-Auja, Salah Freijat Abuasta, says that the demolitions targeted homes inhabited by indigenous people in the town, as the occupation demolished five homes in the Ras al-Auja area.
Freijat notes that this demolition process has caused the displacement of 50 people, due to the demolition of their homes, and forcing them to remain in the open.
At the end of last November, the occupation demolished Palestinian civilian facilities, and the most dangerous was demolished in the town of Al-Khader near Bethlehem. On the same day, the town of Halhoul, north of Hebron, witnessed the demolition of a house under construction for Palestinian citizen Hamdi Abido.
At a time when a Palestinian family receives a notice of demolishing their home in the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, for security reasons, the occupation vehicles begin to demolish another family’s home in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, under the pretext of building without a permit.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 869 Palestinians became homeless this year due to Israel's destruction of property, the largest number since 2016.
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