Under international law, the Israeli belligerent has limited authority, primarily to maintain public order and basic services, and generally can't impose arbitrary building permits on colonized people, but the Israelis might regulate large projects or essential infrastructure, while colonized people retain rights; however, the specific legality hinges on whether the occupation is provisional (belligerent) or a de facto annexation, with the 'occupier' having stricter rules not to curtail local rights or exploit resources for their benefit.
The presence of the Israeli belligerent has been for nearly 60 years, which not just exceeds the meaning of occupation that international law defines as temporary. The implementation of the requirement of a permit, which is systematically denied to the colonized people, is to stop the continuation of the Palestinian existence this way, and to expand the foreign existence (Israelis are foreigners, as they are people from around the world) in the West Bank. This is purely for the benefit of the Israeli belligerent's own people. Therefore, demolition under the pretext of lacking a permit is a war crime.
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20251216 - Deir Qeddis, west of Ramallah - Israelis demolish a Palestinian house under pretext of no building permit (4 photos)
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20251216 - Rafat, north of occupied Jerusalem - Israeli excavator demolishes a home under the pretext of no building permit
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20251203 - Al-Salam, occupied Jerusalem - Palestinian family of Karshan forced to demolish 3 apartments under the illegal requirement that a Palestinian needs a permit. (4 photos)
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20251106 - Qatanna, northwest of occupied Jerusalem - Occupation forces demolish Palestinian home, citing the flimsy pretext of construction without (illegal) Israeli permit
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20251105 - Al-Bustan, Silwan - Israeli occupation authorities forced Jerusalemite Musa Badran to demolish his own home