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UN Condemns ’Israel’s’ Demolition of Palestinian Homes

UN Condemns ’Israel’s’ Demolition of Palestinian Homes
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The UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories Friday criticized "Israel's" demolition of 36 Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley and urged a halt to such actions in the West Bank.

UN Condemns ’Israel’s’ Demolition of Palestinian HomesHundreds of activists, meanwhile, staged an overnight demonstration in the Jordan Valley region.
The demolitions in the Jordan Valley community of Ain al-Helwe on Thursday displaced 66 people, including 36 children, James Rawley said in a statement.

"I am deeply concerned about the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinians... along the Jordan Valley where the number of structures demolished more than doubled in the last year," he said.

In parallel, he mentioned: "This activity not only deprives Palestinians of access to shelter and basic services, it also runs counter to international law."
His office said more than 1,000 people had been displaced last year in the West Bank and east al-Quds by demolitions on the grounds that homes had been built without "Israeli" permits, "which are virtually impossible to obtain."

On Friday, around 300 Palestinians and foreign activists set up camp in abandoned houses near Jericho in the West Bank to protest against "Israel's" refusal to pull out of the Jordan Valley in case of a deal.
The demonstrators in the village of Ain Hijleh were equipped with generators and said they planned to spend the night in around a dozen of the houses, as "Israeli" troops and police kept watch from a distance.

They held a banner reading: "No with settlements."

Their action - dubbed "Meleh al-Ard" [salt of the earth] - aimed "to revive an old Palestinian Canaanite village in the Jordan Valley", to counter any "Israeli" annexation plans, the activists said in a statement.
They condemned settlement construction in the West Bank and the "Israeli"-Palestinian peace process brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

His efforts would "establish a disfigured Palestinian state and recognizes the "Israeli" entity as a Jewish state," they said.

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