An Israeli occupation court today ruled in favor of the demolition of a school in Jub adh Dhib community, close to Beit Ta’mir village, southeast of Bethlehem, according to a local activist.
Coordinator of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Hassan Brijiyeh, that the Central Israeli Court issued a ruling in favor of the demolition of al-Tahadi 5 (Challenge 5) School in the southern occupied West Bank village, effectively accepting a petition submitted by Regavim settler group to demolish the structure.
He added that the new court ruling, intended to give a veneer of legality to the demolition, allows 60 days before the demolition is carried out.
Regavim promotes Israeli Jewish settlers’ “right” to colonize Palestine, mirroring the techniques and strategies of liberal human rights NGOs.
On February 27, the court rejected an appeal submitted by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission and the Society of St. Yves against the elementary school, which was previously demolished and rebuilt in 2017.
The school was built on land donated by Palestinians, who own legal papers that prove their ownership of the lands.
In August 2017, he French foreign ministry denounced the demolitions by the occupation authorities of several schools, including a European Union (EU)-funded school Jubbet ad-Dib.
“This destruction, which is contrary to international law, is all the more disturbing since it has notably taken place in the area known as E1 (between East Jerusalem and the settlement of the Ma’ale Adumim),” the ministry noted.
Such an area, the ministry stressed, “is of strategic importance for the viability of a future Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital and for the two-state solution, to which France reaffirms its support.”
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency