Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening ordered seven Palestinian families from Um al-Jamal and al-Burj Bedouin communities, in the Northern Jordan Valley, to evict their homes to make way for military maneuvers.
Local activist Aref Daraghmeh said Israeli forces handed seven Palestinian families notices ordering them to leave their residential structures so that the army can conduct military drills in the area.
The families are to stay away from their homes from 05:00 p.m. on Tuesday till 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
On Monday the Israeli military forced four Palestinian families in Umm al-Jamal to evict their homes under the same guise.
The locals said it is extremely difficult for whole families, including children, to be evacuated on such a short notice. With no properly arranged place to stay in, they must find a way to ensure shelter, food and drink away from home in the intense, grueling heat of the Jordan Valley.
The frequent evacuations carried out by the Israeli military across the occupied territories force residents to put their lives on hold. Left-behind ammunition and bombs have led to the death of scores of Palestinians over the past years.
Waleed Assaf, the head of the National Commission against the Israeli Annexation Wall and Colonies, said that the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, is still facing the Israeli demolition of 189 of its homes.
Speaking to the Palestinian Radio on Tuesday morning, Assaf said the demolitions are part of a large illegal colonialist plan to expand its colonies in the southern part of occupied Jerusalem, and link them with Gush Etzion Block.
His statement came after the army demolished, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinian homes in the village, after an Israeli court rendered its final ruling against them.
and received some basic aid to survive until a solution is found to ease their plights.
Several months ago, the Jerusalem City Council announced the annexation of large areas of Palestinian lands, in order to build and expand its illegally segregated colonies.
This illegal policy places an imminent threat of demolition of 189 Palestinians homes in the village.
Israeli occupation forces demolished on Tuesday morning a Palestinian sheep breeding facility set up in Anata town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli municipal vehicles rolled into Anata town and destroyed a structure for raising livestock owned by the Palestinian farmer Mohammed al-Saray'a.
The occupation authorities claimed the demolition was carried out due to unlicensed construction.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, 27 Palestinians, including former political prisoners, from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The invasions targeted dozens of homes in many communities across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.
The soldiers also installed military roadblocks and searched dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of scores of Palestinians.
The invasions led to protests in many communities across the West Bank, especially in Nablus and Jerusalem, while the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs.
They also installed roadblocks in many areas, closing several streets in the governorate, including roads leading to Hebron city.
Islam Abdul-Karim Hashash, Balata refugee camp, Nablus.
Abdul-Rahman Qassem Sa'adi, Jenin refugee camp, Jenin.
Basman Abu Rmeila, Kafr Aqab, Jerusalem.
Saif Abu Rmeila, Qalandia refugee camp, Jerusalem.
Ibrahim Dandan, Abu Dis, Jerusalem.
Ahmad Abu Sondos, Doura, Hebron.
Mohammad Abu Arqoub, Doura, Hebron.
Ala Zeidat, Bani Neim, Hebron.
Mubarak Ala Zeidat, Bani Neim, Hebron.
A group of armed extremist Israeli colonizers invaded, on Monday at night, a Palestinian home in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and occupied it.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the home is owned by members of Za'tari Palestinian family, and is located near the Ibrahimi Mosque, and close to Keryat Arba' illegal colony.
The colonizers were accompanied by many soldiers, who surrounded the area and prevented the Palestinians from entering it, while the assailants brought furniture into the property.
Local nonviolent activist Aref Jaber said the illegal takeover of the Palestinian home came just three months after an attempt by the colonizers to occupy it.
Israeli occupation forces on Monday evening ordered four Palestinian families in Um al-Jamal, a small Bedouin village in the Northern Jordan Valley, to evict their homes to make way for military maneuvers.
Local human rights sources said Israeli forces handed four Palestinian families notices ordering them to leave their residential structures so that the army can conduct military drills in the area.
Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian-owned house, for the second time, in the Manshiyet Zabda village in northern Israel, on Monday.
Locals said that the Israeli authorities demolished the house a second time after residents of the area had rebuilt it following its first demolition.
Sources pointed out that the house is inhabited by 15 people.
Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive trees surrounding the house and razed the house to the ground after destroying its contents.
Palestinian communities in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem have long been targeted by discriminatory Israeli policies, whether through "divide and conquer" tactics, attempts at forcibly displacing Bedouin communities, and what has been denounced as a policy of "Judaization" of Jerusalem at the expense of other religious communities.
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Monday at dawn, four homes, and injured sixteen Palestinians, in the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
Dozens of soldiers surrounded and isolated the village, before invading it, and prevented the Palestinians from entering or leaving it.
The Israeli army said the buildings were constructed without permits from the "Civil Administration Office," which runs the administrative branch of Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank.
Local nonviolent activist Ibrahim Awadallah said the soldiers demolished the 200 square/meter home of Khaled Mahmoud Abu Khiara, inhabited by eleven family members, and the 130 square/meter home of Hanan ar-Razem, in Ein Jweiza area.
The soldiers later demolished the 100 square/meter home of Ahmad Abu at-Teen, and the home of Ala' Hussein Hajajla, in Khallet as-Samak area.
Dozens of Palestinians protested the invasion, and barricaded themselves in the homes, before the soldiers assaulted them and forced them away.
The army carried the demolitions out after an Israeli court rendered, on Sunday evening, its final decision in support of the destruction of the properties.
It is worth mentioning that the soldiers also demolished an agricultural shed in the village, and removed a mobile home, owned by members of Shqeirat family.
The soldiers assaulted the Palestinians and fired rubber-coasted steel bullets and gas bombs at them.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers injured sixteen Palestinians, including six who were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to assaulting and wounding ten others.
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Monday at dawn, a shed and a room in Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Several army jeeps and bulldozers invaded Qweiwis area, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and demolished a residential room, owned by Yousef Ayyoub Abu Arram.
The soldiers also demolished a shed, owned by Suleiman at-Taymeen and his brother Nawwaf.
The army claimed that demolished structures were built without permits from the "Civil Administration Office," which runs Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday arrested 10 Palestinian citizens in raid campaigns launched in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Israeli occupation army said in a statement Monday morning that six of the detained Palestinians are involved in popular resistance attacks against Israeli targets.
The statement noted that the IOF soldiers were able to seize a weapon in a Palestinian house in Tulkarem and confiscate thousands of shekels in Qalqilya that are used to fund resistance operations.
According to the statement, violent clashes broke out during an IOF raid into al-Izza refugee camp in Bethlehem. No injuries were reported.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF at daybreak arrested the Islamic Jihad leader Khaled Abu Zeina, 60, after raiding his house in Jenin refugee camp and searching it.
Other arrests were reported in al-Khalil, Tulkarem and Qalqilya, according to local residents. Most of the detainees are ex-prisoners who spent years in Israeli jails.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem, the Israeli police arrested four Palestinian citizens, after raiding their houses in Silwan, and transferred them to an unknown destination.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that violent clashes flared up in Kafr Saba neighborhood in Qalqilya between the IOF soldiers, who heavily fired teargas canisters, and Palestinian youths, who responded by throwing stones.
A Palestinian youth was arrested during the clashes while dozens others choked on teargas.