Israeli forces injure Palestinians demonstrating against home demolition

RAMALLAH, Israeli forces used tear gas bombs and rubber bullets to end demonstrations by Palestinians on Sunday in Khan Al-Ahmar area in solidarity with Palestinians in Naqab who are protesting home demolition policy.

According to eyewitnesses, many Palestinians were injured as result of Israeli excessive force.

Hundreds of Palestinians also demonstrated elsewhere in protest of the Israeli home demolition campaign targeting Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem and in the rest of the occupied territories.

The protesters waved banners in Arabic, English and Hebrew including “no to ethnic cleansing, stop home demolitions, your goals are racist and our homes are our lives.” The protesters also shouted slogans that condemned the recent Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign targeting the Palestinian Bedouin communities of the Naqab region, south of occupied Palestine.

Palestinians in Jerusalem say they are forced to build without a permit because getting a building permit is impossible as the right-wing mayor and city council attempt to keep the city?’s Palestinian population at a bare minimum while multiplying its Jewish residents by approving the construction of thousands of new housing units in Jewish settlements.

Almost 75 percent of applications for a permit by the Palestinian citizens of Jerusalem are rejected by the municipality, according to rights groups.

In recent weeks, an afforestation campaign led by the Jewish National Fund campaign in the Naqab sparked widespread protests by the Palestinian Bedouin communities in the area, who say the forestation campaign is just another effort by the Israeli forces to dispossess them from their land.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

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