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Israeli bulldozers in Nablus. Source: WAFA Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
Feb 17, 2022

NABLUS, Thursday, February 17, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities Thursday morning razed agricultural structures in Duma town, southeast of Nablus city, according to a local activist.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement construction in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer to the town, where the heavy machinery tore down two agricultural rooms, reducing them to rubble.

Israel demolishes Palestinian houses and structures almost on a daily basis 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.

In contrast, Israel argues that building within existing colonial settlements is necessary to accommodate the “natural growth” of settlers. Therefore, it much more easily gives the over 700,000 Jewish Israeli settlers their building permits and provides them with roads, electricity, water, and sewage systems that remain inaccessible to many neighboring Palestinians.