BETHLEHEM, January 1, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Wednesday demolished a house in al-Walaja village, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a municipal source.

Khader al-‘Araj, head of al-Walaja Village Council, said that the occupation forces escorted a bulldozer into the village, where the heavy machinery tore down a 60-square-meter house belonging to Nisreen Khaled Abu Rizeq, a female, displacing five people.

He added that the occupation forces had demolished Abu Rizeq’s house for the first time on July 15, 2024.

Since the onset of the Israeli genocidal aggression on Gaza in October 2023, the occupation forces have stepped up the demolition of Palestinian houses and property, particularly in Area C, which accounts for 60 percent of the total area of the occupied West Bank.

Statistics of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission show that the occupation authorities carried out 52 demolitions against 63 Palestinian-owned structures, including 27 inhabited houses and 17 agricultural structures, in November 2024.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces tore down an agricultural shed in the village of Budrus, northwest of Ramallah.

K.F.