So far in 2021, the Israeli authorities have demolished, seized, or forced people to demolish at least 474 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Israeli authorities have demolished, seized, or forced people to demolish at least 474 Palestinian-owned, including 150 donor-funded ones, displacing 656 people, including 359 children.

This represents a 32 percent increase in the number of structures demolished or seized, over 145 percent increase in donor-funded structures, and a near 70 percent increase in the number of people displaced, with a near 75 percent increase in children, compared with the equivalent period in 2020.

On 9 July, Lynn Hastings, the Humanitarian Coordinator, stated that “the Israeli authorities should immediately halt all further demolitions of Palestinian homes and possessions, allow the humanitarian community to provide shelter, food and water to this most vulnerable community and let these people rebuild their homes in their current location and stay there in safety and dignity.”