RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Hebron- 25 July 2022. Israeli machineries demolishe a Palestinian house, in the West Bank city of Hebron.

STORYLINE:

The Israeli authorities today tore down a Palestinian-owned house and other structures in Birin village, south of Hebron, according to a local activist.

Fouad al-Amour, a local activist, said that Israeli forces broke into the village as an army bulldozer proceeded to demolish a 70-square-meter house belonging to a local resident.

He added that the bulldozer also demolished stone terraces and a pond used to collect rainwater for agricultural purposes in the same area.

Amour warned that the demolitions in this area are intended to dislocate the local population in order to make way for settlement construction.

According to the Land Research Center, Israel has frequently issued military stop-construction and demolition orders against various residential and agricultural structures and dismantled barns in the locality, citing the lack of rarely-issued construction permits as a pretext.

In December 2017, Israel delivered stop-construction orders to the locality’s sole clinic and building intended to serve as a primary school for the community’s 60 children

In June 2019, as shown in a PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department’s report, Israel seized 4,800 dunams of land from several localities, including Birin, for the expansion of Bani Haiver.

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