SALFIT,
Wednesday, November 03, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities today
issued demolition orders against five houses in the town of Kafr
ad-Dik, west of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, according to local sources.
Mayor
of Kafr al-Deek, Ibraheem al-Essa, told WAFA that
the Israeli forces barged their way into the western part of the town, located
on the main road running to the nearby town of Deir Ballut, and handed five residents notices to tear down
their houses.
Al-Essa added that the soldiers also handed another resident
an order to demolish his house in the eastern part of the town, and another an
order to halt the construction of his agricultural room.
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.
K.T./ K.F.