RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Israeli army demolished two Palestinian-owned homes in the West Bank on Monday, in the latest demolitions in the occupied territory.<\/p>\n
Azzam Jaber said Israeli bulldozers razed his three-storey house in al-Baqaa town, east of Hebron, citing lack of a building permit.<\/p>\n
An under-construction house was also demolished in Yatta town, south of Hebron, for lack of a construction permit, according to Fouad al-Amour, the coordinator of a local committee against demolitions.<\/p>\n
Israel widely uses the pretext of lack of construction permits to demolish Palestinian homes, especially in Area C in the occupied West Bank, which constitutes around 60% of its space.<\/p>\n
The demolitions came as tension continues to escalate in Hebron amid Palestinian complaints of rising settler attacks against their property.<\/p>\n
According to the state news agency Wafa on Monday, Israeli settlers chopped down nearly 100 olive trees in the village of Tarqumiyah, northwest of Hebron.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Manal Daana, an activist working with the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, told Anadolu Agency that at least 10 Palestinian vehicles were damaged in attacks by Israeli settlers in Hebron.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, an Israeli settler was killed and two others were injured in an attack in the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron. Palestinians say the attack was a response to escalating settler attacks on their homes and property in the city.<\/p>\n
Israeli and Palestinian estimates indicate there are about 650,000 settlers living in 164 settlements and 116 outposts in the West Bank, including in occupied East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
Under international law, all Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are considered illegal.<\/p>\n
Writing by Ahmed Asmar<\/p>\n
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