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UNITED NATIONS, (APP): The United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has condemned Wednesday’s large scale home demolitions by Israeli authorities in the Bedouin refugee community of Um al Khayr in the South Hebron Hills.
As a result, according to UNRWA, 31 Palestine refugees, including 16
children, were made homeless in a community that has endured several rounds of demolitions and often faced harassment from the nearby illegal settlement of Karmel.
Already this year, over 700 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli
demolitions in the West Bank. This figure is approaching the total
number of displaced for all of 2015, Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank, said. He said that he was ‘appalled’ by the
`unjustifiable’ demolitions, which are in violation of international law.
“As the UN has said repeatedly, these demolitions must stop,” UNRWA
said.