Israeli authorities destroy 60 solar panels in remote Bethlehem-area village
June 28, 2017 12:54 P.M. (Updated: June 28, 2017 12:54 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces took down and destroyed some 60 solar panels in the isolated village of Jubbet al-Dhib east of Bethlehem city in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning.
Head of the village council Rateb Abu Mahamid told Ma’an that Israeli army forces and members of the Israeli Civil Administration raided the village early Wednesday to seize the solar panels, highlighting that they were installed last year by human rights organizations to provide electricity to the remote village, which has “no necessities of life to survive,” according to the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARJI).
The village, located in Area C — the more than 60 percent of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli military control — is surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements, and as a result, Israel bars Palestinians from building and being connected to basic infrastructure, Mahamid told Ma’an.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Civil Administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue.