On Monday, Israeli forces demolished two homes in Al-Walaja village, while an undercover Israeli force kidnapped two young men in the Deheishe refugee camp, in the southern West Bank governorate of Bethlehem.
Khader Abu al-Teen, the head of the Walaja village council, told the WAFA News Agency that occupation forces invaded Al-Walaja village, near the 1949 Armistice Agreement Line, northwest of Bethlehem.
Abu al-Teen added that the army demolished two under-construction houses, both of which were three stories, under the pretext of building without a permit.
Media sources said that Israeli forces brutally assaulted the owners of the two houses, Nabil Mahmoud Abu al-Teen and Walid Abu al-Teen, while local Palestinians protested the demolition.
Soldiers fired tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at those who protested, causing several citizens to sustain inhalation injuries, in addition to confiscating a mobile home.
WAFA reported that the army forced its correspondent, Anan Shehadeh, and his colleague, photographer, Ahmad Mazhar, to leave the area, attempted to assault them, and fired tear gas canisters at them; no injuries were reported.
In related news, undercover Israeli agents “Musta’ribeen” infiltrated, on Monday morning, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, and kidnapped the young men, Adi Abu Yabes and Naji Mustafa Ibrahim Shaheen, 20.
