Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
Hundreds of homes and facilities in the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip were demolished by the Israeli occupation during the current year in an attempt to break the steadfastness of the Palestinian people on their land and uproot and displace them from it, while the international community continues to express its concern about the practices of the occupation without taking any actual action to stop them.
In a statement to SANA reporter, Amir Daoud, head of the Documentation Department in the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said: The year 2022 was difficult and harsh for the Palestinians, as the occupation demolished 850 homes and commercial, industrial and agricultural facilities in the West Bank, causing the displacement of hundreds of families or depriving them of their source of livelihood, indicating The demolitions and bulldozing operations affected entire neighborhoods in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, and the villages of the Jordan Valley, Nablus, and Salfit. The occupation also delivered notices to demolish 1,150 homes in the West Bank.
The scene in occupied Jerusalem is no different from the rest of the cities of the West Bank. As part of the occupation’s plans to Judaize the city, the occupation bulldozers demolished 211 homes and facilities, most of them in the towns of Silwan, Al-Isawiya and Beit Hanina, according to what was stated by the spokesman for the people of Silwan Fakhri Abu Diab, indicating that the occupation threatens to demolish 22 A thousand homes in Jerusalem, which constitutes a third of the city's homes.
Abu Dhiab explained that the occupation is waging a demographic war on the Palestinians in Jerusalem through the demolition of homes and establishments with the aim of making the demographic balance tilt in favor of the settlers, stressing that Jerusalemites face demolitions and displacement by standing on their land and defending it.
For his part, human rights researcher Hussein Hammad said: The occupation, during its aggression on the Gaza Strip last August, completely destroyed 29 houses and almost completely 167 houses on the heads of their residents, in a crime against humanity and a flagrant violation of all international laws and conventions, pointing out that the occupation destroyed during previous attacks The sector has more than 2,300 housing units, whose people are still suffering from the bitterness of homelessness and oppression while awaiting the stalled reconstruction process due to the failure of donor countries to implement their financial pledges.
For his part, the head of the People’s Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, Salah Al-Khawaja, explained that the demolition of homes in Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, especially in areas where settlements have devoured areas of it, comes within the framework of the systematic occupation plans to displace Palestinians and expand settlements to implement colonial annexation schemes, warning of the danger of these schemes that race Occupation time for its implementation in light of the international community's inaction and disregard for the ethnic cleansing and displacement operations it practices against the Palestinian people.
Muhammad Abu Shabab
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