In the largest West Bank demolition operation in a decade, Israeli military authorities on Tuesday razed around 70 structures in the Jordan Valley’s Humsa al-Fuqa community in the occupied West Bank.

Locals reported that six bulldozers, accompanied by around 100 Israeli soldiers, carried out the demolitions, leaving 11 Palestinian families homeless.

"Seventy-three people were displaced, including 41 children," UN report said.

This significant number and location of advancements is of great concern to Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov.

According to Mladenov, such moves undermine the prospect of achieving a viable two-State solution by systematically eroding the possibility of establishing a contiguous and independent Palestinian State living side-by-side in peace and security with Israel.

"I call on the authorities to cease immediately all settlement-related activities," he added.

Source : Safa