NABLUS,
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today delivered demolition
orders against some 20 Palestinian houses in Rujeib
town, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.
Ghassan
Daghlas, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement
activities in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli troops barged their way
into the southeastern part of the town and handed demolition orders against
some 20 houses.
Some
of the houses slated for demolition are inhabited by families while the others
are still under construction.
Israel demolishes Palestinian houses and structures almost on
a daily basis as a means to achieve “demographic control” of the occupied
territories.
Israel denies planning permits for Palestinians to build on their own land or to extend existing houses to accommodate natural growth, particularly in Jerusalem and Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule, forcing residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.
In contrast, Israel argues that building within existing colonial settlements is necessary to accommodate the “natural growth” of settlers. Therefore, it much more easily gives the over 700,000 Jewish Israeli settlers there building permits and provides them with roads, electricity, water and sewage systems that remain inaccessible to many neighboring Palestinians.
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