Alwaght- Israeli forces evacuated and demolished 8 Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank.
The B’Tselem human rights group said Tel Aviv forces entered the village of Khan al-Ahmar on Sunday escorting their bulldozers that demolished the houses leaving 28 Palestinians, including 18 minors, homeless as a result.
The Israeli forces claimed the houses, near the Maale Adumim settlement, lacked proper building permits. This is while the Israeli settlement is built on internationally recognized occupied lands.
The building of such settlements is a central point of tension with the Palestinian people. Even the Regime's old ally, the US, has verbally denounced such settlements and has called on Tel Aviv to stop such constructions more than once.
Israeli officials are planning to shut down and demolish a primary school in the same Palestinian village.
Italian aid organization Vento Di Terra, together with volunteers from the Jahalin Bedouin community in al-Khan al-Ahmar, built the school in 2009 as an alternative for the Palestinian students who had to attend classes in distant schools.
The school, which accommodates 170 students from five Bedouin communities in the region, was built using mud and tires because Israel prohibits Palestinians from using stone and concrete in construction.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and (East Jerusalem) al-Quds.
