Mohammed Ayyad Awad, spokesman of Popular Committee Against the Wall in Hebron, said Israeli bulldozers backed by security forces and Israeli Civil Administration arrived at the village of Beit Kahel, to the northwest of Hebron, on Thursday and razed a 140-square-meter house.
Awad said the Israeli forces declared the area a closed military zone during the demolition process.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces demolished 12 shacks and tents belonging to Palestinians farmers in the northern Jordan Valley area under the pretext that they were built in Area C without permits.
Aref Daraghmeh, head of Wadi Al-Maleh village’s council, said dozens of Palestinian farmers and their families are living in this area for decades whose businesses contribute to the Palestinian economy.
In a related development, Jewish occupiers uprooted some 200 olive trees in the village of Qosra.
Hani Abu Murad, mayor of Qosra village, said the occupiers arrived early on Thursday and uprooted the trees. Qosra was last month a scene of several attacks by occupiers.
Meanwhile, Some 10,000 Bedouin rallied in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba against the Israeli plan to uproot them from their shantytowns. They were carrying signs against the Israeli plan, the demolition of Bedouin homes and the confiscation of their lands.
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee said the demonstrators rallied to protest the Israeli Prawer Committee’s recommendations.
The Israeli government approved last month a $334 million plan to develop the Bedouin sector in accordance with the Prawer Committee’s recommendations. The plan, the Bedouin leaders say, will lead to the eviction of 30,000 people.
Mohammad Zaidan, chairman of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, said the Arabs and Bedouin inside Israel “strongly reject the plan.” Zaidan described it as a “catastrophe.”
The Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights organization say the Prawer Committee’s recommendations follow the Israeli official policy that ignores citizens and communities in Israel, especially minorities.
