Basim Al-Tamimi, the coordinator of the Al-Nabi Saleh Popular Committee Against the Settlements and Wall, said that the Israeli Civil Administration officers handed the demolition orders to him and other four families in the village which is located to the west of Ramallah.

Al-Tamimi added that the orders were also handed to Samir Shihadeh, Mohammed Roshdi Al-Tamimi, Saleh Ayoub and Haitham Ibrahim. The official said that the Israeli officers warned Mohammed Ibrahim that the fence of his house would also be demolished.

Al-Tamimi said Israeli forces ordered the owners to leave their homes "as soon as possible since they build their homes without a legal permission from Israeli authorities." He added that the homes "were built fifty years ago."

He stressed that the arbitrary Israeli measure came to pressure Palestinian activists in the village to stop their anti-separation wall rallies.

The Palestinian activists and their foreign supporters in Al-Nabi Saleh hold a peaceful and nonviolent rally every Friday against the Green Line separation wall that snakes deeply inside the West Bank.

The Al-Nabi Saleh Popular Committee Against the Settlements and Wall said the Israeli provocative policy "will not prevent us from participating in anti-occupation rallies."

Mohammed Al-Tamimi, one of the owners of a house slated for demolition, told Arab News that the Israeli measures "aim at pressuring the Palestinians while Jewish occupiers from the nearby settlement of Halamish continue the expansion on our lands."

He added that the Israeli Civil Administration issued the decision "in favor of Halamish occupiers only, without taking into account the interests of Palestinian villagers and their families who will be rendered homeless after the demolition."

Jewish occupiers torched a vehicle early on Wednesday in the West Bank village of Immatin, to the east of Qalqilyah. Haitham Sowan, the head of Immatin Council, said that the vehicle belonged to Iyad Sowan. He added that another vehicle was doused with a flammable liquid. The official added that the perpetrators were occupiers from the nearby Gilad Farm settlement outpost. Radical Jewish occupiers have carried out several attacks on Palestinians' properties in several West Bank locations as part of their so-called "price tag" policy following the Israeli government decision to freeze constriction in settlements for 10 months.

The development came as the Palestinian Ambassador to the United States Maen Erekat said US Middle East envoy George Mitchell will visit the region soon to lead a new round of proximity talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel.

Erekat told the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam that Mitchell is visiting the region "within days."