ESTRICTION SUMMARY: APA wire CLIENTS ONLY SHORTLIST: APAwire - APA wire CLIENTS ONLY, Jerusalem- 05 November 2024. Israeli forces demolished three Palestinian homes on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli authorities cited a lack of a building permit for the demolition in al-Bustan neighborhood.From early morning, Israeli police were stationed in the neighborhood. Later, bulldozers from the Jerusalem Municipality, operating under Israeli authority, demolished three houses belonging to the Ruwaid, Abu Diab, and Ayed families.Dozens of Palestinian homes are demolished every year by the Israeli authorities in occupied East Jerusalem and in the West Bank, especially in areas classified by Israel as Area C.Under the 1995 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was divided into three portions – Area A, B, and C.Palestinians insist that East Jerusalem is the capital of their future Palestinian state, while Israel maintains that Jerusalem, in its entirety – both East and West sectors – is its capital.The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October last year to over 11,600, including those who were released after being arrested, according to Palestinian figures.The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted regular raids in the West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.At least 772 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,300 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.The escalation follows a landmark opinion in July by the International Court of Justice that declared Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian land 'illegal' and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.