This morning, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces began extensive demolition and notification operations in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

In Tulkarm, the occupation forces demolished tonight the house of the martyr Tamer Raafat Fuqaha, in the Shuwaika suburb, north of Tulkarm city.

According to local sources, a large number of occupation military vehicles, accompanied by a heavy bulldozer of the type "D10", stormed the suburb and headed towards the house of the martyr Faqha, and deployed snipers in the surrounding houses, before proceeding to demolish it.

In November 2024, the family of the martyr Tamer Fuqaha received a notice from the Israeli occupation army to demolish their one-story home, which had been evacuated earlier, and they were given 72 hours to object.

Faqha was martyred on May 4 of last year 2024, after the occupation forces surrounded the Badran family home in the town of Deir al-Ghusun, north of the governorate. The occupation accuses him of carrying out a shooting operation in November 2023 at the entrance to the town of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, which led to the killing of a soldier.

In the northern Jordan Valley, the occupation forces notified the citizen Shamekh Mustafa Daraghmeh to evacuate his home under the pretext of military training.

The occupation gave Draghmeh a week to evacuate, under the pretext of military training in the area.

In Hebron, the occupation forces demolished four houses without prior warning, along with all their furniture and contents, belonging to citizen Muhammad Aqtil, in “Khallet Taha” near the town of Deir Samet, with an area of 100 square meters, under the pretext of building within areas classified as “C.”

The occupation forces forced his son's family of 9 to forcibly evacuate him since the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, and prevented them from returning to him, forcing them to reside in a family home in the village of Kharsa.

In Jericho, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished five inhabited homes and several walls in the village of Al-Duyuk Al-Tahta, northwest of the city of Jericho, today, Wednesday. The owners were identified as: Ali Kaabneh and Saad Khawaja.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces demolished a restaurant in the Al-Makhrour area in Beit Jala, which was built five years ago on an area of 3 dunams and belongs to the Jerusalemite citizen Mahmoud Ali Musa Sari, under the pretext of not having a license, while bulldozing the land, uprooting dozens of old olive trees, and demolishing stone chains estimated to be more than 100 years old.

In Salfit, the occupation forces demolished a house that had been inhabited for 5 years in the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit, owned by citizen Jawad Yaqoub Hadrous, and its area was approximately 150 square meters.

In occupied Jerusalem, the occupation municipality crews demolished the "Al-Taqwa Prayer Hall" in the village of Sur Baher, south of the city of Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Governorate report monitored that during the year 2024, the number of demolitions and bulldozing operations in the Jerusalem Governorate reached (380) demolitions and bulldozing operations, including: (92 forced self-demolition operations) and (259 demolitions carried out by the occupation’s mechanisms), in addition to 29 bulldozing operations.

According to data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the occupation authorities issued 903 demolition notices against Palestinian facilities last year under the pretext of lack of permits, distributed in the governorates of Hebron with 180 notices, Jericho and the Jordan Valley with 140 notices, then Bethlehem with 126 notices, during which 20 notices were issued targeting the eastern Bethlehem wilderness.

During the past year, the occupation authorities carried out a total of 684 demolitions, during which they demolished 903 facilities in the West Bank, including the city of Jerusalem, and 4,332 people were affected as a result, including 2,320 children.

The demolitions were concentrated in the following governorates: Jerusalem with 190 demolitions, Hebron with 172 demolitions, and Bethlehem with 68 demolitions.