BETHLEHM, October 28, 2026 (WAFA) — Israeli forces demolished an occupied residential building and bulldozed a plot of land on Wednesday in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of Bethlehem.

Activist Ibrahim Awadallah told Wafa that Israeli forces demolished a three-story building belonging to brothers Yahya, Mustafa, Hamza and Mohammed Yousef Rabah. Each floor measured 170 square meters, and the building housed five families comprising 12 people.

He added that Israeli forces bulldozed half a dunum of land belonging to Khaled Mousa al-Araj, uprooted more than 50 fruit trees, including olive and almond trees, and demolished a 35-meter-long, 15-meter-wide retaining wall and a staircase. They also destroyed water tanks.

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