Israel has demolished nearly 166,000 Palestinian homes since its illegal creation, a report says, adding that about one million Palestinian people have been displaced as a result of the Israeli occupation.
The Palestinian Information Center, citing a report by the Land Research Center of the Arab Studies Association in the occupied al-Quds, said in a statement on Tuesday that the Israeli regime had razed to the ground about 165,690 Palestinian homes since its inception, and caused about one million Palestinians to be subjected to internal and external displacement.
“During the first nine months of the year 2020, the occupation forces demolished 450 homes and facilities, and also pushed some Palestinians to demolish their homes with their own hands,” the center added.
The statement also underlined that the Israeli regime had adopted the policy of limiting construction by Palestinians and compelling them to resort to building their homes without permits.
According to Press TV, the center said Palestinians in the occupied al-Quds alone were in urgent need of 25,000 residential units.
Israeli authorities usually demolish Palestinian homes in the occupied al-Quds and elsewhere in the West Bank, claiming that the structures have been built without permits. They also sometimes order the Palestinian owners to demolish their own homes or pay the demolition costs to the municipality if they do not.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he would start plans for annexing more areas in the occupied West Bank, in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s "deal of the century" scheme, further infuriating Palestinians.
Trump officially unveiled his scheme in January at the White House with Netanyahu on his side, while Palestinian representatives were not invited.
The proposal gives in to Israel’s demands while creating a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders, enshrining the occupied al-Quds as “Israel’s undivided capital” and allowing the Tel Aviv regime to annex settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
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