On Monday morning, Israeli military bulldozers razed two Palestinian homes in the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, located in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
According to local reports, the homes belonged to brothers Nael and Raed Reda Sarsour and were demolished after Israeli forces invaded the town and cordoned off the area.
Raed Sarsour explained that the buildings, each spanning three stories and covering 200 square meters per floor, housed 20 family members.
Early Monday morning, Israeli military bulldozers began demolishing a seven-story, under-construction Palestinian residential building in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission condemned the demolitions, describing them as part of a broader strategy to stifle Palestinian urban development and population growth in towns and villages.
The Commission emphasized that such actions are often justified under the pretext of lacking construction permits, with the goal of displacing Palestinians and confining them to isolated enclaves.
In March alone, Israeli authorities carried out 58 demolition operations targeting 87 structures, including 39 inhabited homes, six uninhabited homes, 26 agricultural facilities, and other buildings.
During the same period, 46 demolition orders were issued for Palestinian structures, with the highest number in Tulkarem (20 notices), followed by Jenin (8 notices), Bethlehem (6 notices), and Hebron (6 notices).
While Israel continues to build and expand its illegal colonies, Palestinian communities and towns in occupied Jerusalem and various areas in the occupied West Bank continue to be denied the right to build homes and property under various allegations meant to prevent the expansion of Palestinian towns and neighborhoods.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
