Jewish mentality: israel demolishes homes, water pipes, and agricultural structures in Jordan Valley

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Ma’an – October 9, 2016

TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces destroyed residences, agricultural structures, solar panels, and water pipes in the occupied West Bank district of Tubas, in the Jordan Valley, on Sunday morning. Bashar Bani Odeh, the head of Khirbet Atuf village council, told Ma’an that four Israeli bulldozers accompanied by 12 Israeli military jeeps raided the area of al-Ras al-Ahmar and destroyed nine structures, including structures used to care for cattle. It also destroyed the main water pipeline used by residents of the area, and destroyed several solar panels which generate power to the local residents.According to Amnesty International, nearly 200,000 Palestinians in the West Bank do not have access to running water.
”Nearly 20 percent of the occupied West Bank has been declared “firing zones” since the 1970s, but according to the UN, recent research shows that nearly 80 percent of these areas are not in fact used for military training.Rights groups have accused Israel of declaring some parts of the West Bank as firing zones as an attempt to annex these areas.Furthermore, Israel rarely grants Palestinians permits to build in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, although the estimated 550,000 Jewish Israeli settlers are more easily given building permits and allowed to expand their homes and properties.Nearly all Palestinian applications for building permits in Area C — the 60 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli military control — are denied by the Israeli authorities, forcing communities to build illegally.Demolitions in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have seen an unprecedented surge in recent months, as Israeli authorities demolished 835 Palestinian structures so far this year, in a large increase from 531 in all of 2015, according to UN documentation.

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