SALFIT, March 24, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli Authority Thursday handed demolition notices to Palestinians in Salfit, in the west bank.    

The Mayor of Burkin, a village west of Salfit, Akrama Samara, told WAFA that people of Burkin are severely attacked by settlers, in addition to demolishing their houses.

He said that 71 demolition notices were handed to Palestinians, while 16 houses were actually demolished in the last two decades.

These houses are inhabited by Palestinian families and demolishing them will displace theses families and create a massacre, he added.

Samara said that the purpose of this campaign against Palestinians is obvious and clear and it comes under the process of land confiscation and settlement expansion at the expense of our lands and lives.

Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, Nasfat Khuffash, told WAFA that hundred of houses in Salfit might be demolished under lame excuses like building with no permits; since the occupation authority prohibits building outside the organized boarders.

Khuffash said that the occupation authority is executing a hidden massacre in Salfit by cutting the roads with check points and bypass roads that isolates villages from each other. 

M.H./F.R.