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HEBRON, May 23, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Wednesday demolished residential tents of Palestinian families in al-Jihesh valley south of Yatta, a town south of Hebron, according to a local activist.

The Popular Committee coordinator in Yatta, Rateb al-Jabour, said Israeli soldiers accompanied by policemen and members of the Israeli civil administration raided the area with heavy machinery and destroyed six tents housing over 30 people.

He said the Israeli demolition targeting the area aims to empty it of its local residents to expand the nearby settlement of Sosiya.

In a related matter, Israeli forces demolished an animal barn in Khirbet al-Rahweh, a locale south of the town of Dahriyieh south of Hebron.

The barn owner, Ibrahim al-‘Amoul, told WAFA that Israeli authorities gave him a demolition notice several days ago with a final deadline to demolish it by September, but Israeli bulldozers destroyed the barn on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers demolished on Wednesday a 600-square-meter chicken hut, built 30 years ago, in Beit Liqya, a village southwest of Ramallah, according to head of Beit Liqya local council Khaled Shibli.

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