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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Israel pulls down West Bank mosque |
| 2010-11-26 |
| [Al Jazeera] Israeli troops have demolished a mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas in the ooccupied West Bank, Paleostinian sources have said. Most of the demolition activity took place in the village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday where local residents said troops had razed a very old mosque and its much-larger extension, which was built last year. They also said troops had levelled "more than 10 buildings used for sheep". The Israeli military confirmed knocking down what it described as "eight temporary structures" which had been built inside a military firing zone. "During the morning, the security forces and the civil administration destroyed eight temporary structures and the frame of another structure, which were built without the required permits inside a firing zone endangering the lives of the residents," according to a statement from COGAT, the defence ministry unit which acts as a link between the army and the Paleostinians. In a statement, the Paleostinian government said that their efforts to build a state are met with "state destruction by Israel". Israeli control Khirbet Yarza is located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli control and where all construction and planning issues come under the jurisdiction of the Israeli civil administration. At the opposite end of the West Bank, Israeli troops destroyed a building which was home to 18 people in the southern town of Yatta, the family and municipal officials told the AFP news agency. Figures from Bimkom, an Israeli NGO, show that around 95 per cent of applications for a building permit are rejected, with the civil administration only granting around 12 permits a year. According to UN figures, Israel destroyed 180 Paleostinian structures in Area C in 2009, including 56 residential buildings. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 It's a start. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-11-26 14:27 |
| #4 (6.726x10^7)(453 mol)(]]]]]]])=i holiest site |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-26 12:14 |
| #3 "The problem here is not the damage cost, it is the problem that the Israelis destroyed the mosque ... with the holy Quran inside." Yeah... only Muslims are allowed to do that! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-11-26 07:17 |
| #2 gorb: How insensitive. Don't you realize that this was the 6.726x10^7th most important holy site in Islam? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-26 07:11 |
| #1 Here's CNN's article on this incident. Check out the Palestinian woman (wearing her finest) "reacting" to what she sees. Amazing how they got there just in time to get this shot. Set up a mosque in another building and be done with it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-26 00:36 |