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HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Monday demolished two homes and a barn in the village of al-Rahwa in southwestern Hebron.

Locals said that Israeli forces and a military bulldozer raided the village and demolished the three structures, which belonged to Rajeh Farhan al-Samamreh.

They added that the al-Samamreh family consists of 24 members, most of them children.

In the south Hebron hills, the illegal presence of around 3,000 Israeli settlers has come at the expense of Palestinian residents' ability to build homes and infrastructure.

Under the Oslo Accord, building permits must be approved by the Israeli Civil Administration for Palestinians to build in Area C.

As a result of rarely-approved permits, however, Palestinian residents are often forced to build structures without permits, which are liable to be torn down later by Israeli forces.

Israel destroyed 591 Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2014, displacing 1,177 people, according to UN figures.

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions reports that Israel has demolished at least 27,000 Palestinian homes and structures since occupying the West Bank in 1967.

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