RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Jenin - 02 November 2022. Palestinians inspect the rubble of their homes after Israeli forces demolish its, in the West Bank city of Jenin.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Amir Abu Seif, owner of the demolished house.

STORYLINE:

Israeli bulldozers Wednesday morning razed two houses in Jalbun village, northeast of Jenin city, according to local sources.

Head of Jalbun Village Council, Ibrahim Abul-Rub, said that Israeli forces escorted two military bulldozers into the village, where the heavy machineries demolished a 200-square-meter house under construction of Khaled Abul-Rub and a 120-square-meter house belonging to Amir Abu Seif, purportedly for being constructed without licenses.

Israel demolishes Palestinian houses and structures almost on a daily basis as a means to achieve “demographic control” of the occupied territories.

Israel denies planning permits for Palestinians to build on their own land or to extend existing houses to accommodate natural growth, particularly in Jerusalem and Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule, forcing residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.

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