Israeli forces demolished two homes on Monday, displacing two families in the village of Al-Walaja, west of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Khader Al-Araj, the head of the Al-Walaja village council, told the WAFA News Agency that occupation forces, followed by military reinforcements and heavy machinery, invaded the village and surrounded two homes in the Ain Juwaiza area.
Al-Araj added that the two homes, each 80 square meters in size, belong to the Abu Rizq and Rasem families, consisting of 11 people in total. Despite the families requesting building permits, the army demolished the homes under the pretext of a lack of a permit.
WAFA reported that between October 7, 2023 and October 5, 2025, occupation authorities carried out a total of 1,014 demolition operations in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, affecting 3,679 structures, including 1,288 inhabited homes, 244 uninhabited homes, and 962 agricultural and other structures.
In related news, the army demolished two agricultural structures and 2 water wells in the village of Wadi Rahhal, southeast of Bethlehem, and destroyed two agricultural rooms and two water wells belonging to Palestinian residents.
In the same context, the Israeli government announced a military order to cut down 15 dunams of olive crops, for so-called “military purposes” in the villages of Ras Karkar and Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
In Hebron, the Israeli Civil Administration announced a new colonial plan to build two buildings, covering 12,500 square meters, on the lands of the former central vegetable market in Hebron city.
The Hebron Municipality confirmed Monday that the so-called “Israeli Civil Administration” unveiled a new plan to construct two six-story buildings with 63 colonial units and a three-story building with a school, a library, and a synagogue, spanning a 12,500 square meter area.
The Municipality expressed its absolute rejection of the colonial plan, calling the plan a violation of the principles of international humanitarian law, and added that it will pursue legal action to challenge the decision.
