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Wednesday 09 Sep 2015 - 12:49 Makkah mean time-25-11-1436
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Jerusalem (IINA) – There are more than 11,000 demolition orders are currently outstanding in 60 percent of the West Bank over which Israel still retains direct control, known as Area C, according to a new report, prepared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing official data released by the Israeli authorities
These orders, which affect an estimated 13,000 Palestinian-owned structures, including homes, are among the over 14,000 demolition orders issued by the Israeli Civil Administration between 1988 and 2014.
Area C is home to some 300,000 Palestinians and 77 percent of the demolition orders affect structures located on privately-owned Palestinian land, according to the report, produced by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“These orders heighten the vulnerability of thousands of poor Palestinian households, some of whom are at imminent risk of forcible displacement,” Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, told reporters in New York.
The report comes in the context of a rise in demolitions in the West Bank, with 143 Palestinian structures having been demolished during August 2015, the highest such number in five years.
“As we have said repeatedly, the secretary general calls on the Israeli authorities to halt demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures, to revoke plans that would result in the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities, and to implement an inclusive planning and zoning regime that will enable Palestinians’ residential and community development needs to be met,” Dujarric said.
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