IOF Demolish Home, Issue Order for Another in Bethlehem; Settlers Vandalize Water Supply near Ramallah

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a demolition in Bethlehem and issued a demolition order for another property on Monday.

In the village of Marah Ma’alla, south of Bethlehem, Israeli occupation troops, accompanied by bulldozers, reportedly stormed and cordoned off the area before demolishing a multi-story residential building. Local sources indicated the three-story Palestinian-owned house was razed under the claim it lacked the necessary building permits.
Separately, Hassan Breijieh, director of the international law department at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, reported that the IOF delivered a demolition notice to Mahmoud Zawahra for his one-story house in the village of al-Masara, also south of Bethlehem, citing unlicensed construction as the reason.
In a separate incident, a horde of extremist settlers stormed the Ein Samiya area in the east of Kafr Malik town, northeast of Ramallah, where there are some water wells, and wreaked havoc on water equipment and pipes.

The settler attack disrupted the water supply, leaving dozens of villages and communities in the area without access to water.