RAMALLAH / Qais Abu Samra / Anadolu

Israeli army forces demolished two Palestinian homes in the cities of Ramallah and Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Monday morning, claiming they were built without permits.

Palestinian sources reported that a military force accompanied by bulldozers stormed the town of Beit Liqya west of Ramallah and demolished a house under construction belonging to citizen Mohammad Aayed Badr.

They explained that the demolition was carried out under the pretext of building without a permit in an area classified as Area C under the Oslo II agreement signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel in 1995.

In the town of Beit Awwa southwest of Hebron, Israeli forces demolished the home of citizen Yahya Mallouh on the same pretext, displacing his family of 10 members.

Mallouh told Anadolu that the house was 220 square meters in area and that he built it after years of suffering, adding that his family was living in it before the army forces stormed it and began demolition.

He explained that the Israeli authorities had previously notified him of the demolition, then later issued an eviction order before carrying out the demolition suddenly.

He added: 'We managed to remove some of the furniture before the demolition, but today we are displaced and do not know where to go.'

He noted that the Israeli army had previously demolished his brother's house, expressing the difficulty of rebuilding a new home amid rising construction costs, rents, and deteriorating living conditions.

The Palestinian citizen said: 'We built this house with great hardship, and today we lost it. Rebuilding it is not easy.'

Under the Oslo II agreement signed in 1995, Area C is under full Israeli control and constitutes about 60 percent of the West Bank's area.

International humanitarian law prohibits the demolition of civilian property except for imperative military necessity, according to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.

Israeli demolition operations cause the displacement of Palestinian families and loss of livelihoods linked to agriculture and herding.

According to UN data, demolition operations during the year 2025 displaced more than 1,700 Palestinians.

During the first half of this year, Israeli authorities carried out 341 demolition operations, resulting in the destruction of 740 Palestinian structures, and issued 254 new demolition notices, according to the Palestinian Commission Against the Wall and Settlement (a government body).

Alongside demolitions, Palestinians say the Israeli army and settlers continue attacks including killings, bulldozing agricultural land, and preventing farmers from accessing it, aiming to forcibly displace Palestinians.

Palestinians warn that the attacks pave the way for Israel to officially annex the West Bank, which would undermine the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state as stipulated in UN resolutions.

In 1948, Israel was established on lands seized by armed Zionist militias that committed massacres and displaced at least 750,000 Palestinians. Tel Aviv later occupied the rest of the Palestinian territories and refuses to withdraw.