Refugees

Zionist troops invaded, Monday, the town of Rojeeb east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and handed demolition orders targeting four homes.

An Israeli General has urged for a repeat of the 1948 military massacre that resulted in Israel's occupation of the Naqab Desert, also known as the Negev, and the forceful expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinian residents.

Only 50 of 1,650 homes wrecked in an 11-day Israeli war are being restored. Gaza officials estimate that it will take $479 million to rebuild homes and infrastructure damaged in the war.

A technical error in Israel's state archive website has revealed that David Ben-Gurion, who would become the first prime minister of the Israeli occupation, said in 1948 that some Palestinian villages must be wiped out because they "constitute a great danger", Israeli daily Haaretz has reported.

Israeli occupation demolished 295 Palestinian residential structures in occupied territories in 2021, leaving 895 Palestinians, 463 of them minors, homeless, Israeli rights group, B'Tselem, reported on Tuesday.

Zionist officials approved plans for the construction of thousands of new housing units and demolished dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied al-Quds last year, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of al-Quds Affairs says.

Documents obtained by Haaretz include proposals for a new neighborhood in Sheikh Jarrah, one near Damascus Gate, two near Beit Safafa, and one each in Sur Baher and Beit Hanina.

The European Union reiterated its call on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt demolitions and any other unlawful practices that force Palestinians out of their homes.

The Zionist regime has given the initial approval for construction of as many as 3,000 illegal settler units in the occupied holy city of al-Quds.

OCHA: In the first two weeks of November, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished 49 Palestinian-owned structures and displaced 38 people.

Hundreds of refugees and representatives of factions participated in a mass event to demand the participants in the International Ministerial Conference in Support of UNRWA to provide unconditional funding to the UN agency.

A decades-long standoff between the Israeli government and Mizrahi Jews ended with the eviction of dozens of families from Tel Aviv's Givat Amal Bet neighbourhood, sparking allegations of racism and "contempt" for the Arab Jewish community that migrated to the occupation state following its founding.

Employing systematic violence and terror, Zionist settlers have taken over Palestinian territory the size of the city of Holon, blocking Palestinian access to lands they used to cultivate crops and graze livestock, according to a report published by Israel’s Haaretz daily newspaper.

The Israeli occupation’s court decided to seize thousands of dunams of the lands of Umm Al-Fahm and ‘Ara in the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.

Hamas spokesman: The Zionist occupation's establishing a transportation station near Nablus is a new Zionist aggression against our Palestinian people.

An Israeli planning committee approved plans advancing the construction of thousands of homes in Givat Hamatos, an illegal East Al-Quds’ settlement that threatens to cut off parts of the city from its Palestinian residents and the West Bank.

On this day in 1953, two Israeli military units under Ariel Sharon besieged the village of Qibya, located 11 km northwest of Ramallah, and isolated it from the rest of the neighboring villages.

The Zionist regime’s occupation has demolished about 172,900 Palestinian homes, displaced 1,324,000 Palestinians and confiscated 19 million dunums (19,000 square kilometres) of the land of historical Palestine "to bring 5 million Zionist immigrant from around the globe to replace the indigenous people."

Violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has increased dramatically over the past two years, while Israeli officials continue to cover them up, Haaretz reported on Sunday.

Palestinian representatives of national and Islamic forces and refugees meeting in Ramallah have rejected a recent framework agreement signed between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the United States, saying it cancels the rights of return for the refugees.

Palestine has strongly rejected and boycotted Israel’s so-called settlement project in the occupied al-Quds as a colonization attempt, warning that the scheme is aimed at annexing the Arab part of the holy city to the occupying regime.

The United Nations says Israeli authorities have torn down, seized, or forced owners to demolish a total of 31 Palestinian-owned buildings across the occupied West Bank in two weeks.

A Palestinian family from the occupied Al-Quds neighborhood of Silwan embarked on demolishing their own home after they were forced to do so by Israeli municipality, according to local sources.

Mohammed Dwaik proceeded to tear down his house at Khilet al-Ein area in the town of at-Tur to avoid paying exorbitant costs if the Israeli municipality carries out the demolition on its own.

The Israeli occupying state is trying to deceive world public opinion when it says that Palestinians will be allowed to build in Area C of the occupied West Bank, said Ahmad Majdalani, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Zionist regime’s authorities have ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem (Beit-ul-lahm), the occupied West Bank.

Zionist regime has torn down more than 81 buildings in East Al-Quds since the beginning of this year, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Refusing to give in and surrender, the Palestinian people will continue fighting Israeli schemes with all their might. The Palestinian resistance is ready to respond to the Israeli occupation aggression.

Palestinian resident of East Al-Quds forced to demolish own house to avoid paying heavy fees

10 truckloads of aid include food parcels, medical equipment, hygienic supplies and clothing.

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Israeli occupation authorities to halt its demolition and confiscation of Palestinian property in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

The European Union (EU) announced on Tuesday that Israel had displaced 595 Palestinians, including 320 children, since the beginning of 2021, representing an increase of 50 per cent compared to last year.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) received a contribution of $1 million from the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) towards supporting food assistance in Gaza.

UNOCHA: So far in 2021, the Israeli authorities have demolished, seized or forced people to demolish at least 421 Palestinian-owned structures, including 130 donor-funded [in the West Bank].

The Israeli authorities must immediately halt attempts to forcibly transfer around 70 Palestinians, including 35 children, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said, after bulldozers demolished all of the property of Humsa al-Bqai’a Bedouin community in the north of the Jordan Valley property.

Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Ministry condemns Zionist regime’s demolition of Humsa al-Fawqa as a step toward annexation of Jordan Valley.

Zionist regime’s new cabinet vows to build more settlements by stealing the Palestinian people’s lands, continue Netanyahu’s land theft policy.

The Israeli forces demolished, seized or forced the demolition of 26 Palestinian-owned structures and injured at least 1,075 Palestinians across the West Bank during last 2 weeks of June, OCHA reports.

"The return of seven million Palestinian refugees to their towns and villages in Palestine is a legitimate right that we will never abandon or waive at any cost," Haniyeh said

The Norwegian Refugee Council stressed the need for the Zionist authorities to immediately stop forcibly displacing people and demolishing their homes and property.

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN pointed out that the Zionist regime’s occupation forces have demolished 72 buildings in just three months, which led to the displacement of 78 Palestinians, including 47 children and 15 women.

The deadline set by the Israeli occupation authorities ends for 13 Palestinian families who received orders to self-demolish their homes in the Al-Bustan quarter in the occupied Al-Quds neighbourhood of Silwan within 21 days.

Zionist troops delivered demolition orders against some 20 Palestinian houses in Rujeib town, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.

Zionist regime’s occupation forces issued demolition orders against eight Palestinian structures in the village of Jawaya, based near Al-Khalil, reported Wafa news agency.

Fakhri Abu Diab, member of the Defense of Silwan Land Committee, warned that 17 homes belonging to Palestinian families in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, south of occupied Al-Quds, will be demolished by the end of next month by the Israeli authorities.

The Al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan, which is south of the Old City, has 119 families in 88 buildings that are under threat of demolishment to make way for an Israeli archaeological park.

A committee representing Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in the occupied city of Al-Quds warned that the Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit's decision not to intervene in their case paves the way for their forcible displacement from their homes.

The term ‘Naksa,’ or the ‘setback,’ refers to the beginning of the 1967 Six Day War on June 5, which saw Israel triple in size beginning over 54 years of occupation.