JORDAN VALLEY, Tuesday, February 02, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces raided after midnight last night Khirbet Humsa al-Fouqa community in the northern occupied Jordan Valley and prevented activists from building shelters for the residents whose tents were demolished yesterday and left without a shelter to protect them from the cold desert night weather, according to a local source.

Mutaz Bisharat, an official with the Tubas governorate, told WAFA that Israeli forces seized the personal IDs of three activists in order to prevent them from proceeding with the building of the shelters.

Israeli occupation forces yesterday demolished and dismantled 40 structures owned by 11 Palestinian families in the community, and ordered the residents to leave the area.

Most of the structures in the community were demolished in November of last year in Israel’s efforts to empty the Jordan Valley of its Palestinian residents as it seeks to annex it despite international outcry against the illegal annexation of occupied Palestinian territories.

K.T./M.K.