On Monday, the Israeli occupation army demolished a house, a horse farm, and two agricultural facilities in the occupied West Bank , claiming they were built without a permit.
In a statement, activist Jihad al-Qaq said that occupation army forces stormed the Jabal al-Asour area in the town of Kafr Malik (central West Bank), and demolished a house under construction with an area of 140 square meters.
He added that the forces also demolished a 460-square-meter horse farm. The house and farm belong to a Palestinian citizen, and the demolition was carried out under the pretext of building in the area classified as “C”.
Under the “Oslo II” agreement signed in 1995, Area C is under full Israeli control and constitutes about 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
International humanitarian law prohibits the destruction of civilian property, except in cases of extreme military necessity, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.
that the occupation army had notified the owner of the two facilities to stop construction about two years ago, and then carried out the demolition on Monday morning.
He explained that the occupation forces forced him to remove the horses from the farm, and prevented him from removing the equipment and supplies before carrying out the demolition.
In the Nablus governorate (north), security and local sources said that Israeli military vehicles stormed the town of Beit Dajan at dawn and demolished two agricultural facilities belonging to Palestinian citizens.
Sources reported that the demolitions caused a power outage in the western plain area of the town.
Israeli authorities are carrying out extensive demolitions in Area C, and Palestinians say that obtaining building permits in these classified areas is virtually impossible due to Israeli restrictions.
Since Israel began its genocide in the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023, the Israeli army and settlers have intensified their attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank.
These attacks resulted in the martyrdom of more than 1,182 Palestinians, the injury of about 13,000, and the arrest of nearly 24,000 in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, according to official Palestinian data.
The attacks also include the demolition of homes and facilities, the burning of mosques, the bulldozing of agricultural lands, preventing farmers from accessing their farms, the displacement of Palestinians, and settlement expansion on their lands.
Palestinians warn that Israel is using these attacks to pave the way for the formal annexation of the West Bank, which would undermine the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state as stipulated in relevant United Nations resolutions.
In 1948, Israel was established on Palestinian lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs who committed massacres and caused the displacement of at least 750,000 Palestinians, before Tel Aviv occupied the rest of the lands and refused to withdraw from them.
