{"id":202043,"date":"2026-05-25T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202043\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:27:12","slug":"israeli-forces-demolish-palestinian-villa-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202043\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces demolish Palestinian villa in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align:justify\">BETHLEHEM, May 25,\u00a02026 (WAFA) \u2013\u00a0Israeli occupation forces demolished on Monday a Palestinian villa\u00a0 in the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align:justify\">Walid Najajra, an administrative official in the Nahalin municipality, told WAFA that Israeli troops stormed the town and deployed in the \u201cTour al-Zaafaran\u201d area near the \u201cBakoush\u201d neighborhood before demolishing an inhabited villa belonging to Saber Mahmoud Najajra, claiming it \u00a0was built without a building permit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align:justify\">A local source confirmed that Israeli troops closed off the demolition site, preventing residents from approaching, and fired live ammunition, tear gas, and stun grenades. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align:justify\">The source added that the villa consisted of two floors, each measuring 300 square meters. He noted that a large number of inhabited homes in the areas of Subaiha, Wadi al-Baqara, Wadi Salem, Wadi Bu Kabir, al-Kabarat, and Bakoush have been under threat of demolition and stop-work orders for some time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" style=\"text-align:justify\">Y.S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, May 25,\u00a02026 (WAFA) \u2013\u00a0Israeli occupation forces demolished on Monday a Palestinian villa\u00a0 in the town of Nahalin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-202043","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\/202043","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=202043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}