Israeli occupation forces ordered today a halt on the construction of two Palestinian-owned homes in the village of Hamsa in the northern Jordan Valley, northeast of the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Mutaz Besharat, a local Palestinian activist, told WAFA that an Israeli army force raided the village and handed a notification to a local resident, Ali Freij Abul-Kabbash, and his son, Hakam, ordering them to stop the construction on the tow homes, under the pretext of lacking an Israeli permit.
The village is located in an area classified as Area C, the more than two-thirds of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli civilian and military control, and where Israel rarely issues construction permits to the Palestinian population to accommodate their natural growth.
This reality forces residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency