Zionist Troops Demolish Mosque in Qalqilya

WEST BANK (KI) – Zionist troops demolished on Tuesday an under-construction mosque in southern Qalqilya, reported Wafa news agency.
The occupying regime escorted a bulldozer into the town of Arab al-Ramadin and razed the mosque to the ground. The mosque was located behind the illegal Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank.
The regime destroys Palestinian-owned homes and structures on a daily basis across the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources, the demolition activities are in preparation for the construction of new illegal settlement units.
The regime army justified the measure by claiming that the homes and buildings are located in ‘Area C’ of the occupied West Bank, which is under its military and administrative control.
Palestinians are prohibited from making any structural changes or building any new structures in Area C without an Israeli permit, which is almost impossible to obtain.
The move comes as Israeli human rights group Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights – said in a new report that the odds of a Zionist trooper being prosecuted for harming Palestinians, or their property is almost zero.
Analysis of the data for the 2019–2020 period shows that only two percent of complaints filed by Palestinians against Zionist troops for abuse lead to prosecutions.
In 2019–2020 the Military Advocate General Corps (MAGC) charged with handling offenses involving troops who harmed Palestinians or their property in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, received a total of 273 complaints regarding suspected offenses by troops against Palestinians or their property.
Of those, the vast majority – 72 percent – were closed with no criminal investigation. Some 56 investigations were opened, just one-fifth of the total number of complaints made during this time period, for which a decision on further action has been made.
Yesh Din says that there exists a deliberate policy of reducing the number of investigations being opened against Zionist troops and in the few investigations that are opened, the proportion of investigations that yielded sufficient evidence and culminated in the prosecution of suspects remains extremely low.