The Zionist authorities on Thursday issued demolition orders for two Palestinian buildings and a barn in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

The Zionist authorities on Thursday issued demolition orders for two Palestinian buildings and a barn in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

"The Israelis gave the Palestinian owners 45 days to demolish the properties," Hassan Breijieh, coordinator of a local committee that opposes construction of Zionist settlements on Palestinian land, told media outlets.

According to Breijieh, Zionist forces stormed Al-Khader village and presented the owners of two buildings – a car wash and a barn used for horse breeding – with official demolition orders.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that the Zionist entity demolished more than 500 Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) last year alone.

The Zionist municipal authorities impose tight restrictions on the building and renovation of Palestinian homes in "Area C" of the occupied West Bank.

According to the terms of the 1993 Oslo Accords, Area C is subject to total Zionist administrative and security control.

In a related development, Jewish settlers on Thursday uprooted 15 olive trees in southern Bethlehem.

Palestinians living in rural areas of the West Bank are frequently attacked by radical Jewish settlers.