TUBAS, Wednesday, June 26, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today ordered a halt on the construction of a school and two houses in al-Aqaba village, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, according to a local activist.

Aref Daraghmeh, a human rights activist, said that the occupation forces barged their way into the village, seized a concrete pump truck and a concrete mix truck before ordering a halt on the construction of a school and two houses, all under construction.

Israeli refuses to permit virtually any Palestinian construction in 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 much more easily gives over 800,000 supremacist Jewish Israeli colonists there building permits and provides them with roads, electricity, water and sewage systems that remain inaccessible to many neighboring Palestinians.

The “Civil Administration” is the name Israel gives to the body administering its military occupation of the West Bank.

Soldiers in the oxymoronically named Civil Administration determine where Palestinians may live, where and when they may travel (including to other parts of the occupied territories like Gaza and East Jerusalem), whether they can build or expand homes on their own land, whether they own that land at all, whether an Israeli settler can takeover that land among others.

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