The so-called ’civil administration’ of the Zionist entity issued last week demolition orders for more than 40 structures in the Palestinian village of Susiya in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).

The so-called 'civil administration' of the Zionist entity issued last week demolition orders for more than 40 structures in the Palestinian village of Susiya in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron).

According to the orders, the entire village – located on the border between the occupied West Bank and the Zionist entity – will be bulldozed, leaving hundreds of the Palestinian village’s residents without shelter.

“Israeli forces entered the village and issued demolition orders for 35 tents and five facilities for livestock-breeding,” Jihad al-Nawaja, head of Susiya’s village council said.

“These racist demolition orders will leave more than 330 Palestinians without roofs over their heads,” al-Nawaja lamented.

The Zionist administration attributed the decision to the lack of infrastructure for the local population. The occupation government, meanwhile, only provides services to the Jewish-only Susia Settlement, which lies some 400 meters away.

According to al-Nawaja, the demolition of the village is meant to provide dozens of square kilometers of land for the expansion of the nearby settlement.
Susiya resident Salem Abu Haddar, 44, said the Zionist army had handed him a demolition order for his modest home made of corrugated iron.

“Eleven people live in this house; we have nowhere else to go,” Abu Haddar said.

He added that a number of village residents were refusing to leave and planned to resist the demolition orders.

“We inherited this land from our parents,” he asserted. “We will not give it up.”

Since the collapse of peace talks with the Palestinians last year, the occupation authorities have stepped up its policy of building settlements in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Palestinian negotiators insist that Zionist settlement-building on Arab land must stop before any comprehensive peace agreement can be reached.

International law views the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “occupied territories” and considers all Jewish settlement-building on the land to be illegal.

Roughly 500,000 Zionists now live in more than 100 Jewish-only settlements built since the entity occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967.

The Palestinian Authority wants these areas, along with the Gaza Strip, for an eventual independent state of Palestine.