Hebron - Saba:
Israeli enemy authorities seized a Palestinian building in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
According to Sanad News Agency, local sources said that enemy forces, accompanied by technicians and engineers, stormed the building on Sunday evening, conducted surveying and photographing operations, then locked the property and left.
The sources explained that the confiscated property is an upper floor built about 40 years ago above four shops dating back around 170 years. It was previously used as a carpentry training academy and has a total area of approximately 400 square meters.
Meanwhile, the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee stated that an Israeli court had ruled to evacuate a building known as "Al-Manjara" at the entrance of the Old City of Hebron and approved its seizure in favor of the enemy authorities.
The committee described this step as “dangerous,” adding in a statement that it represents a continuation of the enemy’s policies aimed at Judaizing the heart of Hebron and imposing full control over the Old City.
It explained that this decision “comes within the context of the arbitrary measures adopted by the Israeli enemy authorities against the Old City, its residents, and institutions, aiming to empty it of its original inhabitants and erase its historical and national identity.”
The committee stated that the decision “opens the door to further settler control in one of the holiest and most ancient Palestinian areas.”
It called on “the Palestinian people and civil society institutions to launch a national and popular solidarity campaign to protect the Old City and its properties and support the resilience of its residents in the face of these unjust policies.”
In the center of Hebron, the second-largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, around 900 settlers live among tens of thousands of Palestinians, with more than 1,000 soldiers stationed among them to “maintain systems of segregation and military control.”
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