| Palestinians say troops have demolished mosques and several other structures in two areas in the occupied territory. |
AlJazeera online 25 Nov 2010 21:55 GMT
Israeli troops have demolished a mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas in the ooccupied West Bank, Palestinian sources have said.
Most of the demolition activity took place in the village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday where local residents said troops had razed a very old mosque and its much-larger extension, which was built last year.
They also said troops had levelled "more than 10 buildings used for sheep".
In a statement, the Palestinian government said that their efforts to build a state are met with "state destruction by Israel".
Israeli control
Khirbet Yarza is located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli control and where all construction and planning issues come under the jurisdiction of the Israeli civil administration.
At the opposite end of the West Bank, Israeli troops destroyed a building which was home to 18 people in the southern town of Yatta, the family and municipal officials told the AFP news agency.
Figures from Bimkom, an Israeli NGO, show that around 95 per cent of applications for a building permit are rejected, with the civil administration only granting around 12 permits a year.
According to UN figures, Israel destroyed 180 Palestinian structures in Area C in 2009, including 56 residential buildings. Read more in the following link;
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/201011251357498144.html
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