Israeli occupation authorities demolished this early morning the donor-funded Jibb Al-Deeb School in the small Palestinian village of Bayt Ta’mar, to the east of Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, six years after the same school was rebuilt after being demolished by the occupation authorities in 2017.
Bassam Jabr, the Director of Education in Bethlehem, told WAFA that an Israeli occupation army force accompanied by bulldozers stormed the village and cordoned off the area around the school, also called Challenge 5 School, before seizing the school’s assets and proceeding with the demolition.
He pointed out that the school houses about 60 students from the first to the fourth grade, and it was demolished in 2017 before it was rebuilt in the same year.
Confrontations erupted between the Israeli occupation army and local residents following the demolition of the school, during which Israeli occupation soldiers fired teargas canisters at residents, causing many of them to suffocate from gas inhalation.
Israeli occupation forces demolished Sunday two Palestinian-owned homes under construction in addition to other commercial and agricultural structures in the provinces of Jericho and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
In the Jericho province, an Israeli army force raided the village of al-Jiftlik and demolished a guest house owned by Yousef Salem Kaabneh, a local Palestinian resident.
In the village of Al-Auja, north of Jericho, Israeli occupation forces demolished two homes under construction, belonging to Mohammad Samih Birawi, a local Palestinian resident, and his son. The two homes have an area of 200 and 250 square meters respectively.
The Israeli occupation army also raided the nearby village of Fasayil, where they demolished a shack used as a fodder store, owned by Ibrahim Ebayat, a local Palestinian resident.
In the Bethlehem province, south of the West Bank, an Israeli army force stormed the village of Al-Ferdis, where they demolished a car-wash workshop owned by a local Palestinian resident, according to Hasan Brejeyeh, a local activist.
The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the Palestinian towns across the West Bank, clashing with the youth in Nablus and Jenin.
Israeli occupation forces today and last night detained at least nine Palestinians, including three children, during military raids across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, according to local sources.
In Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military stormed the town of Al-Auja, during which three Palestinian children were arrested, after raiding and searching their family homes by the Israeli occupation army. The three were identified as Ahmad Abu Jamus, 14, Mutaz Rumanin, 14, and Seif Maghasleh, 15.
In Jerusalem, Israeli occupation police detained a Palestinian man while he was working in his land and seized equipment belonging to him.
Israeli occupation forces also detained a 32-year-old woman from Ramallah while she was returning back home from Jordan at the al-Karama border crossing, on the West Bank-Jordan border.
In Ramallah and Al-Bierh district, Israeli occupation forces detained two Palestinians after storming their homes in Ras Karker village and in Al-Jalazon refugee camp.
Guarded by Zionist occupation forces, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards, provocatively performing Talmudic rites.
Meanwhile, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasserm indicated that the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank will be escalated in order to prevent the Israeli enemy from settling the battle and mitigate its deterrence power.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
