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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:37PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc"><strong>There has been a sharp rise in the number of Palestinian structures razed by Israel in the West Bank this year.</strong></div>
<div id="divLead">Israeli troops have increased demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank this year, leaving over 700 people homeless, a rights group says.</div>
<p>Israeli human rights group B&#8217;Tselem said in a statement on Wednesday that Israeli forces have so far demolished &#8220;103 residential structures in which 706 persons lived.&#8221;</p>
<p>The new figure shows a sharp rise from 86 structures destroyed in 2010, according to the statement.</p>
<p>Israel claims that it only demolishes structures built without permits.</p>
<p>B&#8217;Tselem said the Palestinians have no choice because Israel, which controls the occupied West Bank, rarely gives Palestinians permits to build.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers razed Palestinian homes near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the southern West Bank.</p>
<p>Israel occupied the West Bank alongside the other Palestinian territory of East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1967 and later annexed both in a move not recognized by the international community.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has called on Tel Aviv to cease the demolitions.</p>
<p>The developments come as Tel Aviv keeps up construction and expansion of settlements on the occupied land.</p>
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