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Israeli forces wreck house, several structures in Jordan Valley
NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces demolished a house and several steel structures and tents in the northern Jordan Valley on Tuesday morning, a local spokesman said.
Fathi Khdeirat, a spokesman of the Campaign to Protect the Jordan Valley, told Ma'an that Israeli bulldozers escorted by several military wrecked a house in al-Jiftlik.
In the nearby village of Fasayil, meanwhile, bulldozers tore down two steel structures used for agriculture.
Two tents were pulled down in Barza neighborhood, added Khdeirat.
He said that demolitions were part of an ongoing Israeli campaign "to displace Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley."
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