HEBRON,
Wednesday, November 03, 2021 (WAFA) –Israeli occupation forces today razed a
Palestinian house in Aj-Juwaya community, east of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
Coordinator
of the Protection and Resilience Committees, Fuad
Al-Amour, told WAFA that Israeli forces demolished a 150-square-meter house
owned by Ismail Hussein Al-Nawaja, displacing his
family, comprising 10 members.
Meanwhile,
Coordinator of the Popular Anti-Wall and Settlement Committees, Ratib Jabour, said that the occupation
forces handed the community residents demolition notices against three houses,
a shack, an agricultural room, and four rainwater wells in last June.
He
clarified that the demolitions besides to other restrictive measures against
the community are designed to displace the population and to make room for the
expansion of the nearby colonial settlement of Ma'on.
Considered
as one of the eastern suburbs of Yatta, Aj-Juwaya is heavily targeted by the Israeli occupation
measures intended to obliterate Palestinian construction expansion.
Masafer
Yatta is a collection of almost 19 hamlets which rely
heavily on animal husbandry as the main source of livelihood.
Located
in Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli administrative and military
control, the area has been subjected to repeated Israeli violations by settlers
and soldiers targeting their main source of living - livestock.
It
has been designated as a closed Israeli military zone for training since 1980s
and accordingly referred to as Firing Zone 918.
Israeli
violations against the area include demolition of animal barns, homes and
residential structures. Issuance of construction permits by Israel to local
Palestinians in the area is non-existent.
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