Israeli forces break up protest camp as NGOs denounce home demolition policy
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A man from the Palestinian family Beshr cries as he sits on the debris of his house, that the authorities say was built without municipal permission, after it was demolished on February 5, 2014 in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad Gharabli)
Israeli troops cleared a Palestinian protest camp in the Jordan Valley on Friday, ending a week-long demonstration against #Israel's refusal to pull out of the area in any future peace deal. Meanwhile, 25 aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem expressed alarm on Friday at a spike in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property coinciding with renewed US-backed peace negotiations. A statement from the Israeli army claimed that soldiers, border guards and police (...)