Israeli forces demolished over 30 agricultural structures in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday morning, local officials said.
Israeli bulldozers protected by military vehicles stormed an area known locally as Diraa Awwad near the Israeli military checkpoint Hamra, east of Nablus.
Bulldozers then demolished the structures including tents, barns, farmland, and water tanks belonging to Palestinian families, said Muataz Bisharat, an official from the governor’s office in Tubas.
The Israeli forces “demolished almost the whole area,” he explained, allegedly because the structures were built without a license. The structures belonged to locals Adnan Abd al-Mahdi Salamin, his brother Adil, Kayid Ghayyath, Nidhal Yousif Abu Awwad and his brother Nidham.
The area was declared a closed military zone.
An Israeli Civil Administration spokesperson confirmed 12 structures had been demolished in the area, but gave no further information.
The Jordan Valley accounts for nearly a third of the land in the occupied West Bank, although 90 percent of it is designated as “Area C” meaning it is under full Israeli control and Palestinian use of the land is severely restricted.
Aside from the land taken up by 39 Israeli settlements and nine illegal outposts, huge swathes of the territory have been declared military firing zones and therefore are off-limits to Palestinians.
(Ma’an – www.maannews.net)
How many farms belonging to Palestinians are going to remain “military firing zones?” How much money will Zionist racist Israel pay the farmers for the crops and buildings destroyed?
When will the firing zones be off limits to Palestinians only?
And last, when will Israel realize they are making no friends and many enemies that can destroy Israel with the stroke of a pen, just like it was begun?