IOF demolishes house and workshop in Rafat, west of Salfit

SALFIT,(Palestine Foundation Information Center)  The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished a two-story house and a workshop for manufacturing artificial stone in the northern area of the town of Rafat, west of Salfit, on Thursday.

Local sources reported that IOF bulldozers destroyed a two-story house owned by citizen Amer Hassan Hamdan Asbah, and a workshop owned by citizen Aziz Shaqir, which he used for producing artificial stone.

The IOF demolished hundreds of structures in the West Bank in the first half of 2025. During the same period, 556 demolition notices were issued, including 322 inhabited homes, 18 uninhabited ones, 151 structures categorized as agricultural, and 97 classified as sources of livelihood, among other types.

This escalation reflects a systematic approach to displacing Palestinian residents from their lands in favor of Israeli settlement expansion and imposing new facts on the ground.