UN urges Israel to end demolition of Palestinian properties

[Hasbara Buster]

UN urges Israel to end demolition of Palestinian properties

Palestinians check the rubble of their house after it was demolished by Israeli authorities on February 10, 2016 in the West Bank village of Jeftlek. (AFP photo)

A United Nations official has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian-owned properties in the occupied West Bank.

In a press release on Wednesday, the UN official said Israeli forces have destroyed, confiscated, or dismantled hundreds of Palestinian homes and other structures since the start of the year.

“The number of demolitions for just the first six weeks of 2016 is greatly alarming,” UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Development Aid for the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper, said.

Piper added that 283 homes and structures have been destroyed or confiscated between January 1 and February 15.

“Most of the demolitions in the West Bank take place on the spurious legal grounds that Palestinians do not possess building permits,” said Piper, “but, in Area C, official Israeli figures indicate only 1.5 per cent of Palestinian permit applications are approved in any case. So what legal options are left for a law-abiding Palestinian?”

He added that 404 Palestinians, including 219 children, have been displaced during this time period, a figure equivalent to half of the total number of Palestinians displaced in all of 2015.

According to Piper, another 1,150 Palestinians have also been affected.

Reports indicate that Palestinian Bedouins have particularly been hit hard by the Israeli demolitions.

Earlier this week, the European Parliament (EP) called for an immediate end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories as well as the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and demolition of Palestinian homes.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

PressTV-‘Israel must end Palestine demolitions’

 

[XY1234]

Hamas must stop killing Jews

 

[Solomon2]

Much of the construction is European-funded and quite illegal. So why shouldn't demolitions be accelerated, rather than stopped?

 

[DANGER-ZONE]

Much of the construction is European-funded and quite illegal. So why shouldn't demolitions be accelerated, rather than stopped?

Are you talking about the Israeli occupation ... It all started in the same manner back in 1940s.
By your logic Israel should be wiped out.

 

[Solomon2]

Are you talking about the Israeli occupation ... It all started in the same manner back in 1940s.
By your logic Israel should be wiped out.

Garbage in, garbage out. You can blame a Pakistani education that forbids any constructive view of Israel for that: link

 

[DANGER-ZONE]

Garbage in, garbage out. You can blame a Pakistani education that forbids any constructive view of Israel for that: link

Constructive view of Israel ... my a$$.
Instead of showing me what Pakistani's or its GOVT think of Israel, try to give something to back your lame logic ?
If those houses are illegally built by European funding, should Israel be treated in a same way, it was also heavily funded by Europe.

 

[Solomon2]

Constructive view of Israel ... my a$$.
Instead of showing me what Pakistani's or its GOVT think of Israel, try to give something to back your lame logic ?

Check out the Oslo Accords, specifically the protocols for Areas A, B, and C. Or are you such a slave to convention and authority and possess such overweening pride that you're afraid to look it up?

 

[Ceylal]

Hamas must stop killing Jews

Hamas was Israel's creation, it is just a case where the student terrorist rebels against his teacher...
israel wanted to weaken the PA and end up getting it right in the kisser...

Garbage in, garbage out. You can blame a Pakistani education that forbids any constructive view of Israel for that: link

You were serious in the past with enlightening views and opinions, now your are just pandering...There is nothing that Israel will do that will change the world opinion to its side...And her stand on the Palestinian question and the daily treatment of the Palestinians will doom Israel..Ponder a little on Rhodesia ?