WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) demolished on Wednesday seven homes and one restaurant belonging to Palestinian citizens in different West Bank areas at the pretext they were built with no permits.
According to local sources, the IOA demolished a house along with its contents, with no prior notice, belonging to a Palestinian citizen in Khallet Taha area near Deir Samet village in the southwest of al-Khalil at the pretext that it was built in Area C of the West Bank.
A family of nine was living in that house before the Israeli army forced it to leave it in October 2023. The family now lives in a house belonging to its relatives in Kharsa village.
In Jericho, the IOA demolished five inhabited homes and fences in Duyuk at-Tahta village.
In Salfit, the Israeli army bulldozed one inhabited house, which had been built five years ago, in Deir Ballut town.
In recent months, Israeli army demolished about 10 homes and rooms and uprooted about 50 olive trees in Deir Ballut town.
In Bethlehem, the IOA razed a restaurant in Beit Jala town belonging to a Jerusalemite citizen.
The IOA also bulldozed dozens of fruitful olive trees and 100-year-old stone fences in Beit Jala.
Last night, the Israeli army demolished a house belonging to the family of martyr Tamer Faqha in Shuweika suburb of Tulkarem City.
The family of Faqha had received a demolition notice from the Israeli army against its one-story house in November 2024.
Faqha was martyred on May 4, 2024 during an Israeli army raid on a house in Deir al-Ghusun town, north of Tulkarem. He was accused of carrying out the shooting attack that killed one Israeli soldier near Beit Lid town in eastern Tulkarem in November 2023.
