The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) said that the occupation authorities demolished or confiscated 69 Palestinian buildings in the occupied West Bank, during the past two weeks, on the pretext that they lacked building permits.
In the "Protection of Civilians" report, which covers the period between January 19 and February 1, the office stated that the demolitions resulted in the displacement of 80 people, and damage to 600 others. According to the report, all of the demolished buildings, with the exception of one of them, and all the displaced persons, were registered in Area C of the West Bank, indicating that 45 buildings, about 70% of those buildings, were located in 4 communities in the Jordan Valley, and a building was also demolished in Al-Walaja village (Bethlehem) within the Jerusalem municipality boundaries determined by "Israel". The report stated that a Palestinian was killed, while 25 Palestinians were injured during this period, during clashes with Israeli forces in various parts of the West Bank, while the Israeli forces carried out 159 search and arrest operations and arrested 177 Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank, and the Jerusalem governorate recorded the highest number of these operations. 35, as most of them were implemented in "East Jerusalem," followed by Hebron Governorate 26. Attackers, known or believed to be Israeli settlers, were wounded, 7 Palestinians, and destroyed an unknown number of vehicles. In the Gaza Strip, the report indicated that the Israeli forces fired warning fire on at least 18 occasions, near the border fence or off the coast of Gaza under the pretext of imposing restrictions on access, resulting in the injury of a person north of Beit Lahiya, and the Israeli authorities arrested a man at the Erez crossing while He was accompanying his wife for treatment in "East Jerusalem."
