Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian home on Tuesday in the town of Kafr ad‑Dik, west of Salfit in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Bulldozers accompanied by military forces invaded the area located between Bruqin and Kafr ad‑Dik and demolished the two‑story home of Sharif Fathi Ali Ahmad.
It is worth mentioning that the family had been forced to evacuate the property several months earlier.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that Israeli authorities carried out 538 demolitions across the occupied West Bank in 2025, targeting 1,400 structures in what the commission described as an unprecedented escalation aimed at suppressing Palestinian construction and natural community growth.
The demolitions included 304 inhabited homes, 74 uninhabited homes, 270 sources of livelihood, and 490 agricultural structures, with the highest concentration recorded in the governorates of Hebron in the southern West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah and Al‑Bireh in the central West Bank, Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley in the northeastern West Bank, and Nablus in the northern West Bank.
In parallel, the number of demolition and stop‑construction notices issued to Palestinian residents rose to 991 during the same year.
These notices were concentrated in Hebron (276), Ramallah and Al‑Bireh (169), and Bethlehem and occupied Jerusalem (124 each), signaling the likelihood of further targeting of Palestinian homes and structures under the pretext of lacking Israeli‑issued building permits.
