Israel delivers four stop-work orders in Bethlehem

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BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 22 July -- Israeli forces delivered four stop-work
notices to Palestinians from the village of Za‘tara in eastern Bethlehem
on Wednesday, claiming the buildings were not licensed, locals said.
Muheisen Abu Amriyeh, a local resident, told Ma‘an that Israeli military
vehicles escorted by Israeli Civil Administration officers raided the area
and delivered stop-work notices to houses belonging to the Hassan Muheisin
family. A total of eight houses belonging to the family are now threatened
with demolition, as Israel delivered another four notices to the same
family 10 days ago, Abu Amriyeh said. Five of the houses are at an early
stage of construction while the other three are already inhabited.
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Israeli forces destroy 450 olive trees, Roman-era well in Hebron
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HEBRON (Ma‘an) 22 July -- Israeli forces on Wednesday destroyed 450 olive
trees, levelled land, and demolished a Roman-era water well in the village
of *Beit Ula in northwestern Hebron, after claiming the Palestinian land
belonged to Israel, locals said. Issa al-Imla, the coordinator of a local
popular committee in Beit Ula, told Ma‘an that the olive trees were more
than 10 years old and belonged to a local farmer, Farid Abd al-Latif
al-Imla. Al-Imla said that Israeli forces also levelled lands belonging to
Abd al-Qader al-Imla and demolished the village water well that dated from
the Roman era. Al-Imla said that Israeli forces, officials from the Israeli
Civil Administration, and three bulldozers also raided the Attus and
al-Mekheh areas in western Beit Ula and destroyed crops. On January 27, an
Israeli court issued an order to confiscate hundreds of dunams of land in
western Beit Ula. Al-Imla said that Palestinian landowners followed up the
case in Israeli courts, but added that Israeli courts generally assist
settlers in confiscating Palestinian land. He called on the Palestinian
Minister of Agriculture and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to help farmers
re-plant trees.
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