Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit, on Thursday morning, launching a fresh demolition assault on Palestinian property and infrastructure.

According to local sources, a heavily armed military unit accompanied by a tactical bulldozer invaded the western district of the town. Without prior warning, the occupation forces targeted and began demolishing a 150-square-meter home currently under construction, belonging to local Palestinian resident Muhammad Ismail Haboub.

The demolition in Kafr ad-Dik is the latest incident in what local residents and human rights defenders describe as a systematic campaign of ethnic displacement enforced by the Israeli occupation. Palestinian communities in Salfit and across Area C of the occupied West Bank face severe restrictions on construction, as the Israeli military routinely denies building permits to Palestinians while rapidly expanding illegal Jewish-only settlements on stolen Palestinian land.

Under the guise of administrative pretexts, the occupation military frequently targets homes, agricultural structures, and water wells to restrict Palestinian urban expansion and coerce families into leaving their ancestral lands.

The town of Kafr ad-Dik has been under escalating pressure from both the Israeli military and nearby illegal settlements, which routinely confiscate town lands for expansion. Local activists emphasized that despite the ongoing destruction of their homes and livelihoods, the steadfastness (Samed) of the Palestinian people in the Salfit governorate remains unbroken.

The Haboub family, now stripped of their future home, joins thousands of Palestinian families impacted by Israel's ongoing policy of home demolitions—a practice widely condemned by international rights organizations as a form of collective punishment and a violation of international humanitarian law. (ILKHA)