The Center for Human Rights and Democracy Information "Shams" issued a monitoring report for the month of October 2020, about the demolitions committed against Palestinian homes and facilities by the Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories, during which the center monitored The Israeli occupation forces´ targeting (81) installations owned by Palestinians, whether by demolition, confiscation, eviction, or the distribution of notices with the intention to target these facilities.
The center indicated that the most prominent violations were concentrated in the demolition operations that affected (36) establishments, including two self-demolition operations that forced the victims to demolish their facilities themselves under threat of fines, while the occupation forces confiscated and seized two facilities, and notified (43) facilities to be demolished, confiscated or evacuated. Most of them are residential, in addition to educational, commercial, agricultural, recreational and medical others.
The Center explained that the facilities that were targeted with different types of violations, whether through demolition, confiscation, eviction, or notifications were distributed according to the following:
Homes (40).
Residential rooms (5).
Berksat Residence (3).
Tent dormitory (1).
Caravan residences (1).
School (1).
Security medical facility (1).
Stadium (1).
Commercial establishments (8).
Gardens, parks and nurseries (2).
Warehouse (1).
As for the geographical distribution of demolitions, according to the regional index, the Jerusalem governorate was the highest to be targeted, with (18) facilities, followed by the Hebron governorate with (11) facilities.
The "Shams" Center monitored the demolitions according to the governorates in which they took place as follows:
Jerusalem (9) demolitions / (18) facilities.
Hebron (5) demolitions / (11) facilities.
Bethlehem One demolition / (3) facilities.
Jenin (2) demolitions / (2) facilities.
Tubas: One demolition / (1) facility.
Qalqilya One demolition / (1) facility.
In addition to the seizure of two facilities in the city of Tulkarm.
In view of the notifications, whether of demolition, confiscation, eviction, or stopping construction work and other violations that prevent Palestinians from realizing their right to build, rebuild and invest their facilities, and which indicate the directions for the concentration of upcoming Israeli targets of Palestinian facilities, the governorates of Jerusalem and Bethlehem came in the highest percentage, followed by them Hebron according to the following schedule:
Jerusalem (18).
Bethlehem (11).
Hebron (10).
Ramallah (2).
Salfit (2).
And since these operations that target Palestinian establishments do not take place in an isolated area from the population, the number of people affected by them in October reached at least (110) people, including a large number of children and women, whose suffering is greater in these cases.
As for the arguments used by "Israel" the occupying power in its attempt to legalize the crime - in the month of October, the number of facilities that were demolished, confiscated, evacuated, or notified under the pretext of building without a permit in Area (C) reached 78 establishments out of ( 81) one and two facilities under the pretext of their proximity to the apartheid wall, and the other as a collective punishment in violation of international law against the families of those who carried out national acts against the occupation.
The Center also indicated that the occupation forces Al-Quds people to demolish their homes and facilities with their hands under threat of imposing heavy fines on them and imposing heavy fines on them and making them double the cost of demolition in the event that they do not do so. Its victims have participated in implementing it against themselves, noting that the number of facilities that the occupation authorities have forced their owners to self-demolish during the past month are two; The first is in the Shuafat neighborhood, owned by the Burgan family, and the second is in the town of Beit Hanina, owned by the Al-Salaymah family, and both are in occupied Jerusalem, where the occupation authorities have the greatest influence in the West Bank and the most intense targeting.
