A Palestinian man argues with Israeli soldiers during the demolition of a Palestinian house at the order of the Israeli army as he tries to stop the demolition in the West Bank village of Biet Ula, west of Hebron, yesterday. Israel yesterday confirmed it was planning to appropriate a large tract of fertile land (154 hectares in the Jordan Valley) in the occupied West Bank, a move likely to exacerbate tensions with Western allies and already drawing international condemnation. Photo: Reuters
While traders and slum dwellers were staging an angry protest against a drive to knock down illegal structures on the land of Housing and Building Research Institute at Kalyanpur, one of the policemen deployed there gets busy with his mobile phone. He also finds a comfortable place -- on a tree. It seems nothing else matters to him. The photo was taken at 12:28pm yesterday. More on page 3, 5. Photo: Star
Remains of an illegal market in the capital's Kalyanpur following an eviction drive by the Ministry of Housing and Public Works yesterday. Photo: Star
Police eye dwellers of an adjacent slum, Pora Bosti, and owners of shops in the market who threw brick chips and burnt scrap materials protesting the drive. Photo: Star
An injured protester being taken away to safety. Photo: Star
