WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist regime Israeli authorities on Monday demolished two houses belonging to Palestinian in Lod near Tel Aviv for building ‘without permits’.
Palestinians in the occupied territories, who make up 20 percent of the territories’ population, have long protested discriminatory laws, including the Kaminitz Law, which penalizes the Palestinian community for allegedly building without permits with demolition and hefty fines.
The demolished houses on Monday belonged to Ashraf and Ayman Abu Kishk, two brothers who live in al-Mahatta neighborhood in Lod. According to Arab48 news website, the Abu Kishk family had been expecting the demolition of their homes for a year, following a notification by regime authorities.
Lod was one of the mixed cities which saw protests and clashes in May over the regime’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip and its plan to forcibly expel Palestinians from their houses in East Al-Quds. Some 29 Palestinians were killed by Zionist troops or mobs.
During the unrest, a 32-year-old Palestinian, Moussa Hassouna, was killed by a Zionist mob near his home in Lod and several others were wounded.
In another development, at least two Zionists were wounded in a stabbing in Al-Quds on Monday, allegedly carried out by a Palestinian assailant from the West Bank, according to the Zionist regime police.
The man was shot by Zionist officers following the purported attack and is currently being treated at the scene, according to local news reports.
The victims were members of an extremist Zionist community in their twenties. The two men were taken to a medical center in the city for treatment, Haaretz reported.
The incident comes shortly after Zionist troops shot and injured a Palestinian man near the city of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
Mahmoud Bello Thawabteh, a 27-year-old resident of the town of Beit Fajjar, was injured near Gush Etzion, a major settlement between the cities of Al-Khalil and Bethlehem, official Palestinian Authority (PA) news agency Wafa reported.
Footage on social media showed Thawabteh lying wounded on the ground, while Zionist troops push away a paramedic who had apparently approached to help him.
He was later hospitalized at Shaare Zedek, where his condition remains unclear.