WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops demolished a new Palestinian home on Sunday, in the latest spate of demolitions in the occupied West Bank, according to a local official, Anadolu reports.
The house was razed in the village of al-Aqaba in the northern West Bank area of al-Aghwar in the Jordan Valley, said Moataz Bisharat, who is responsible for monitoring illegal settlement building activity in Tubas.
He said Zionist troops cited lack of a building permit in Area C for the demolition.
The occupying regime widely uses the pretext of lack of construction permits to demolish Palestinian homes, especially in Area C in the occupied West Bank, which constitutes around 60% of its space.
Under the 1995 Oslo Accords between the regime and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the West Bank, including East Al-Quds, was divided into three portions – Area A, B, and C.
The Zionist regime occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — territories the Palestinians want for a future state — during the six-day war in 1967. It later had to withdraw from Gaza.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank. All of the settlements are illegal under international law. The United Nations Security Council has condemned the settlement activities in several resolutions.
Pro-Palestine Canadian activists and demonstrators staged a protest against the regime’s decades-long aggression and atrocities against Palestinians, to which state-run media have chosen to turn a blind eye under the pretext of covering a rally against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The pro-Palestine march was carried out along Yonge Street in Toronto, the capital of the central Canadian province of Ontario, towards the regime’s embassy on Friday.
The protesters chanted “Free Palestine” slogans and waved Palestine’s national flags.
Furthermore, protesters known as ‘Friends of Palestine’ hit the streets of Manchester in the northwest of England on Saturday in solidarity with the Palestinian people, calling for justice as well as liberation of Sheikh Jarrah.
The protesters also denounced British University of Sheffield Hallam for suspending a Palestinian PhD student from teaching, following a smear campaign by the Zionist lobby that was started after she spoke of her own history of the regime’s ongoing crimes against her and her people, WAFA news agency reported.
Shahd Abusalama, a Palestinian activist, writer and artist from Gaza, announced on her social media last week that she was suspended from a teaching position at her department following an intense online campaign by pro-Israel supporters who accused her of ‘anti-Semitism’.