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SvennoJ on 18 July 2024
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PLO condemns Israel’s ‘massacres’ in Gaza, ‘escalations’ in West Bank

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has condemned the “massacres” carried out by Israel’s “ongoing genocide” in Gaza and its military escalations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The committee, the highest executive body of the PLO, held Israel and its ally, the United States, “responsible for the genocide” in Gaza and escalations in the occupied Palestinian territory.

In a meeting held in Ramallah, the committee “affirmed the continued struggle and resistance of the Palestinian people to achieve freedom and independence and obtain all their rights, including refugees’ right of return, the right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and fully sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital”.


Israeli forces demolish Palestinian buildings in occupied West Bank

The Israeli military has demolished four structures belonging to a Palestinian resident of the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

The Wafa news agency quoted local sources as saying the villas were used to accommodate tourists and were demolished under the pretext of “unauthorised” construction.

Israeli authorities also issued a notification for the demolition of a residential building in the town of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem. The building was reportedly still under construction.

Israeli forces destroyed 318 structures in the West Bank during the first half of 2024, compared with 313 structures demolished throughout 2023, according to data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority cited by Wafa.


Palestinian activist Fakhri Abu Diab, second from right, sits among the rubble of his home that was demolished in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan in February


UN confirms demolitions of Palestinian buildings in Jericho

The United Nations has confirmed receiving reports of structures belonging to Palestinians being demolished in Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

The Wafa news agency earlier cited local sources as saying four buildings were demolished in Jericho, and a notice to destroy another was issued in a town north of Jerusalem.

Since 2009, the UN has recorded 11,081 Palestinian-owned structures being demolished by Israeli forces, displacing more than 17,000 people.


Israeli military storms towns in occupied West Bank

Several people have suffered from suffocation after tear gas canisters were fired by the Israeli military in the Jalazone camp, north of Ramallah, Palestine’s Wafa news agency has reported.

According to local sources, soldiers raided Palestinian homes leading to the outbreak of violent confrontations. Clashes also broke out in Asira al-Qibliya, southwest of Nablus, and a 19-year-old man was transported to the hospital, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

Al Jazeera correspondents also reported the Israeli army storming the town of Salem, east of Nablus.