Ramallah, Sept 02: The Israeli army today demolished Palestinians houses in the area of the village of Yatta, near the southern west bank city of Hebron, the mayor of Yatta said.
The houses were built in autonomous Palestinian territory, but overlooked a road used by settlers in the Hebron region, mayor Mohammad Shatat told a news agency.
He added that the owners of nine houses in the same area were informed a month ago by the army that their homes would be destroyed "for security reasons".

A doctor working for the medical aid group, Medicins Sans Frontieres (doctors without borders) said she saw five houses, which were still under construction but almost complete, being destroyed by army bulldozers.
Miki Suzuki told a news agency one of the houses, in the tiny hamlet of Zif at a junction just outside Yatta, was already occupied, with the residents gathering up what they could before the bulldozers moved in.

Bureau Report