TUBAS, February 29, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Monday demolished residential structures and tents which shelter Palestinian Bedouins in the village of al-Farisiya, in northern Jordan Valley, according to local sources.
Aref Daraghmeh, head of the local council of al-Maleh area, told WAFA that an Israeli army force broke into the village in the early morning hours, before they demolished the structure, under the pretext of construction without an Israeli permit.
The village is located in Area C in the West Bank, under complete Israeli military and civil control. The Israeli army and police have repeatedly vandalized residencies in the Jordan Valley under the pretext of construction without permission.
Over the course of 2015, Israel demolished 521 structures in Area C as well as in East Jerusalem, displacing 636 people, according to the UN monitoring group OCHA.
The vast majority of these demolitions were carried out on the grounds of construction without a permit. Between 2010 and 2014, only 1.5 percent of applications for building permits in Area C were approved by Israeli occupation authorities, OCHA adds.
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