Israel seeks to build 2,339 illegal housing units in West Bank: PLO
Israel plans to construct 2,339 units in the north, south, and central parts of the occupied West Bank, according to a statement by the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s National Office for the Defence of Land and Resistance of Settlement.
The report said Israel plans to build 1,352 units in Qalqilya, 430 units in northeast Ramallah and northwest of the occupied East Jerusalem, 407 units in Bethlehem, and 150 units in the west of Ramallah.
The plan also includes the establishment of the “Samaria National Park” in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, north of Nablus.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israeli presence in the occupied West Bank is illegal.
Israeli army continues demolitions in Tulkarem: Report
Israeli forces have continued carrying out demolitions of Palestinian homes in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
Heavy bulldozers have been working since the morning to demolish more residential buildings in the al-Foul and al-Murabba’a neighbourhoods, as part of the plan to destroy 104 buildings comprising 400 homes.
Last Sunday, the Israeli authorities announced their intention to begin implementing large-scale demolition orders in the Tulkarem camp, disregarding the Israeli Supreme Court’s earlier decision to freeze these orders.
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank’s Nour Shams camp, the army set several homes on fire, Wafa said, adding that troops prevented civil defence vehicles from reaching the camp to extinguish the fire.
Rights advocates have expressed concern that Israel is trying to replicate its policy from Gaza in the West Bank in an effort to eventually displace all Palestinians in the occupied territory.
Israeli settlers attack homes in Bethlehem: Report
Settlers have attacked homes in the area of Wadi Sa’eer near the village of al-Maniya, southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wafa reports.
Ziyad Kawraba, the mayor of al-Maniya, told the Palestinian news agency that settlers threw stones at homes and threatened to burn them down, creating a state of fear among the people.
