TOUBAS, October 26, 2017 (WAFA) – An Israeli court issued on Thursday an injunction stopping demolition orders against dozens of homes for Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley community of Humsa al-Fouqa, according to Mutaz Bsharat, an official with the Toubas governorate that is in charge of the northern Jordan Valley areas.

He told WAFA that the Toubas governorate and the anti-wall and anti-settlements commission obtained the court order that stopped the demolition of 47 structures in the Bedouin village.

Humsa al-Fouqa is among three communities in the northern Jordan Valley Israel is trying to uproot from their land using all pretexts, including construction without permit and using the area as firing and military training zones, in order to take it over and build settlements. The other two are Makhoul and al-Farisieh.

The anti-wall commission has also obtained this week a court injunction against demolition of the Makhoul homes.

The demolition threat became real after the Israeli High Court recently rejected an appeal by the Palestinian residents of the three communities to have their structures legalized.

The three communities are located in the sparsely-populated Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under full Israeli military control.

Israel intends to annex this area, claiming it is vital for its security, and therefore wants to uproot and displace all Palestinians who are living there.

M.K.