On Tuesday, Israeli occupation soldiers demolished a recreational park, including playgrounds and a wedding hall, in Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources reported that several military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the Osh Ghorab area, east of Beit Sahour, and destroyed the Al-Ameera park, which is owned by Jawad Qasrawi.
Younes Arar, head of Bethlehem’s office of the “Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission,” stated that the soldiers demolished the entire recreational park, including its wedding hall, and bulldozed its gardens, reducing it to ruins.
Video Ad from the Park’s Facebook Page, Prior to the demolition
Osh Ghrab is the name of a hill located in the eastern side of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. The site itself was a Jordanian military base taken over by Israel in 1967 who kept it as an Israeli military base.
The Israeli army unilaterally abandoned the place in 2006. The Beit Sahour municipality started to renovate the place and turned it into a public park for the local community in the Bethlehem area.
Since then, Israeli soldiers and groups of illegal paramilitary colonizers have been frequently invading the area, and demolishing structures, bulldozing road, and threatening to take over the entire area.
In related news, Israeli soldiers invaded Doha town, west of Bethlehem, and abducted two siblings, Mohammad and Ziad Tareq Al-Azza, after storming their home and ransacking it.
