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Israeli forces demolish house near Bethlehem – again

Israel’s army has knocked down a Palestinian home in al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reports.

Khader al-Araj, head of al-Walaja Village Council, said Israeli troops escorted a bulldozer into the village, which tore down a house belonging to a woman named Nisreen Khaled Abu Rizeq.

Five people have been displaced. It wasn’t the first time her home was destroyed. Al-Araj said Israeli forces previously demolished Abu Rizeq’s house on July 15, 2024.

More than 600 Israeli settlers enter Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

Wafa reports that 632 Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli police.

It quoted local sources as saying the intruders carried out provocative tours in the courtyard and performed Talmudic rituals, violating the decades-old status quo that allows only Muslim prayer at the holy site.

Israeli police also prevented Palestinians from entering the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem, including Al-Aqsa Mosque, it added.

Nearly 3,000 Israeli attacks reported against Palestinian Bedouin communities

The Israeli army and Israelis from illegal settlements launched 2,977 attacks against Palestinian Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank in 2024, a local rights group says.

In a statement, the al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin said 67 Bedouin communities comprising 340 families were displaced by the Israeli military in 2024.

The Israeli violations “were meant to forcibly expel the Palestinians from their areas in a mass displacement process aimed at creating a population vacuum for the benefit of settlement”, it said. Actions by troops varied between violence and persecution.

“These violations reflect an organized policy aimed at emptying the Palestinian lands of their indigenous inhabitants and replacing them with Israeli settlers,” the statement said.

“These attacks are part of an ethnic cleansing policy pursued by the occupation authorities to empty the Palestinian lands of their legitimate owners, and make them live in a permanent state of threat and displacement.”


_{Israeli forces detain a Palestinian in the Bedouin village of al-Khan al-Ahmar near Jericho in the occupied West Bank}