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IOF halts construction works of three houses in Hebron
Israeli occupation forces on Sunday ordered a ban of construction works in three houses and a livestock shelter to the south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, local sources said.
Local Palestinian activist, Rateb Jabour, said the Israeli occupation forces handed orders to local Palestinian citizens asking them to stop construction in the three homes. The owners of the three houses were known as Atwa Tueimat, Mohammad Kaabneh, and Haitham Kaabneh.
The three houses are home to 25 Palestinians, the majority of them are kids, added Jabour.
Under the Israeli apartheid law, Palestinians are rejected permits to construct their own land or to extend existing houses to accommodate natural growth, particularly in Jerusalem and Area C, which includes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule, forcing citizens to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to give shelters for their families.
On the other hand, Israel said that building within existing colonial settlements is need to accommodate the “natural growth” of Israeli settlers. Therefore, it much more easily gives the more than 650,000 Israeli settlers their building allows and provides them with ways, electricity, water, and sewage systems that are still inaccessible to many neighboring Palestinians.
