{"id":120763,"date":"2026-02-22T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:17:06","slug":"israel-to-demolish-palestinian-owned-house-south-of-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120763\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to demolish Palestinian-owned house south of Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">BETHLEHEM, February 22, 2026 (WAFA) \u2013 Israeli occupation forces, Sunday, issued an order to demolish a Palestinian-owned house in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, citing lack of an Israeli-issued permit as a pretext, according to a local official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Ahmad Salah, head of al-Khader Village Council, told WAFA that an Israeli court issued a demolition order for the two-storey villa-style\u00a0home of local resident Shadi Isa Skeiba, located in the Ard al-Deir area west of the town, following the rejection of a previous appeal to halt the demolition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Salah further stated that the lawyer notified the homeowner of the court\u2019s ruling, adding that Skeiba already began clearing the house in anticipation of its demolition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Israeli forces have recently escalated attacks in the Ard al-Deir area, demolishing several houses and agricultural structures and issuing stop-work orders for a number of other buildings in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">T.R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 BETHLEHEM, February 22, 2026 (WAFA) \u2013 Israeli occupation forces, Sunday, issued an order to demolish a Palestinian-owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-120763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}