{"id":718,"date":"2014-02-15T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/aid-agencies-rap-israel-for-demolishing-palestinian-homes\/"},"modified":"2014-02-15T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:44:00","slug":"aid-agencies-rap-israel-for-demolishing-palestinian-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Aid agencies rap Israel for demolishing Palestinian homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/350829_Israel-demolish.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/350829_Israel-demolish.jpg\" height=\"179\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a>Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank have raised the alarm on a spike in Israeli demolition of Palestinian properties, Press TV reports.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of two houses in the al-Tur neighborhood in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).<\/p>\n<p>The order would make eight family members, including two children and one disabled girl, homeless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left my home in the morning to go shopping. When I was out, I received a phone call from a friend. She told me my house was being demolished. We had received no warning and my children were inside. By the time I got back it was too late,\u201d a Palestinian woman told Press TV.<\/p>\n<p>The woman added that the family had been paying monthly charges to the authorities for the house and they had received no warning ahead of the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>The family now sleeps in tents provided by the British Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>On February 6, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Israel demolished 390 Palestinian homes in the West Bank&#8217;s Jordan Valley in 2013, which resulted in the displacement of nearly 600 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the numbers have doubled in comparison with the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups say Tel Aviv\u2019s demolitions are aimed at grabbing more land for construction of illegal settlements on Palestinian lands and launching military projects in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s persistent settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank has created a major obstacle against efforts made to establish peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank have raised the alarm on a spike in Israeli demolition of Palestinian properties, Press TV reports. Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of two houses in the al-Tur neighborhood in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The order would make eight family members, including two children and one disabled girl, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}