Palestinians condemn, Israel says 'within its rights' to demolish West Bank homes

Record ID: 1424240

  • Title: Palestinians condemn, Israel says 'within its rights' to demolish West Bank homes
  • Date: 22nd July 2019
  • Summary: SUR BAHER, WEST BANK (JULY 22, 2019) (REUTERS) BULLDOZER DEMOLISHING STRUCTURE JERUSALEM (JULY 22, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON EMANUEL NAHSHON SAYING: "The Palestinians know fully well that they are not allowed to build near the security fence. And Israel is totally within its rights when it destroys those buildings, those buildings which were built illegally and their destruction order has been approved by our supreme court. Under those conditions, we have no other alternative." SUR BAHER, WEST BANK (JULY 22, 2019) (REUTERS) MORE OF BULLDOZER DEMOLISHING STRUCTURE FENCE NEAR BUILDINGS
  • Embargoed: 5th August 2019 11:15
  • Keywords: Israel Palestinans demolition Sur Baher West Bank barrier
  • Location: JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH, SUR BAHER, WEST BANK
  • City: JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH, SUR BAHER, WEST BANK
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AOV1H6V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Israel on Monday (July 22) justified its demolition of Palestinian homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem, a move that Palestinians called a 'war crime'.
    Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the Palestinians would complain to the International Criminal Court about the demolitions in Sur Baher.
    Israel said it was within its rights to demolish the buildings, which were built illegally.
    Israel's Supreme Court ruled in June that the structures violated a construction ban. The deadline for residents to remove the affected buildings, or parts of them, was Friday (July 19).
    But Palestinian owners said their buildings lay within areas run by the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
    Bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers moved into Sur Baher, a Palestinian village on the edge of East Jerusalem in an area that Israel captured and occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.
    (Production: Sinan Abu Maizer, Rinat Harash)
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