Alwaght- Israel razed 44 Palestinian buildings in the occupied West Bank, a report by the UN said, as Tel Aviv presses ahead with its coercive land grab policies across the Palestinian territories.
A report cited by the Palestinian Information Center on Sunday stressed that out of the 44 buildings, "about 35 buildings are located in Area C, 19 of which were destroyed without warning, which prevented the owners from being able to protest in advance."
The demolition took place over a span of two weeks under the pretext of "lack of building permits", according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“The occupation authorities displaced as a result of the demolitions between August 30 and September 12, 29 Palestinians, including 10 children, while the livelihoods of about 140 others were affected,” Press TV cited OCHA's report as saying.
The OCHA also confirmed that the occupation authorities demolished 11 Palestinian homes for "punitive reasons" since the beginning of the year, compared to three in 2021 and seven in 2020.
Pointing to the occupying regime's practice of destroying homes of Palestinians allegedly involved in anti-Israel operations, the report underlined that "punitive demolitions are a form of collective punishment, which is illegal under international law."
The Israeli regime occupied the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, including East al-Quds, in a heavily-Western-backed war in 1967, adding it to Palestinian territories occupied prior to declaration of its foundation in 1948.
Over decades, it has dotted the territory with hundreds of illegal settlements that have come to house hundreds of thousands of settlers migrating to yhe occupied territories from various countries.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent state with East Al-Quds as its capital. The Israeli officials , however, lays claim to the entire city as its so-called “capital.”
