Agencies-Gaza post
Israeli authorities order poultry farm demolition in Yatta
The Israeli occupation authorities on Saturday told a resident of the village of al-Tuwani, east of the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank province of Hebron, of a military charge to demolish a poultry farm he owns within 96 hours according to local sources.
Local sources reported that the Israeli troops notified Suleiman al-Adra, a local Palestinian resident, to evict the farm within 96 hours in order to destroy it.
The town is located in an area organized as Area C which makes more than two-thirds of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli military and civil control where construction permits are almost unattainable to obtain for the local Palestinian population, forcing many of them to launch on construction despite the risk of possible destruction.
The town is also part of the Masafer Yatta region, where the Israeli Supreme Court recently upheld the destruction of 12 Palestinian hamlets in the region, which could potentially leave over 1,300 Palestinian residents of the area homeless.
Masafer Yatta citizens and Israeli rights groups say that many of the Palestinian families have been always residing in the 3,000-hectare area since before Israel captured the West Bank in June 1967. Their displacement would constitute a breach of international law.
