Updated: The occupation forces demolished a residential building and threatened to demolish another in Bethlehem.

Israeli occupation forces began demolishing a residential building on Monday and issued demolition notices for the last inhabited home in Bethlehem.

The head of the Marah Ma'ala village council, Khaled Abu Shaqra, told local sources that an Israeli army force stormed the village of Marah Ma'ala and sealed it off, preventing the movement of citizens. The force then proceeded to demolish a three-story building, each 200 square meters in size, owned by Alaa al-Sharif, on the pretext of not having a permit.

In the village of Al-Ma'sara, Hassan Breijieh, director of the International Law Department at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, reported that occupation forces served Mahmoud Suleiman Zawahra with a demolition notice for his 300-square-meter, one-story home, on the grounds that it lacked a permit.

In the first half of 2025, the occupation authorities issued 556 demolition notices against Palestinian structures on the grounds of lacking permits. These included 322 inhabited homes, 18 uninhabited structures, 151 structures classified as agricultural, and 97 structures classified as sources of livelihood and other uses, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.