The Israeli military authorities today handed Palestinian households in the village of Duma, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, eight stop construction orders against their homes and a ninth against building a farm, according to a local official.
Duma head of the village council Suleiman Dawabshe told WAFA soldiers broke into the village and handed the residents the stop-construction orders that included two two-story and one three-story homes, and a farm.
The stop-construction order is usually a prelude to the eventual demolition of the building under the pretext of construction in Area C of the occupied territories, which is under Israeli military rule, without the impossible-to-get building permit.
Israel reserves Area C, which makes up more than 60 percent of the area of the West Bank, for its illegal settlement activities and bars any Palestinian development in this area.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency