OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced a Palestinian family after forcing it to demolish its home at its own expense in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem.
Local sources said that the Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem forced Ali Odeh to knock down his home in Bir Ayyoub neighborhood in Silwan at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The Jerusalemites have no choice but to build without licenses because there are no structural maps that respond to the natural increase in their numbers.
The IOA also imposes building restrictions on the Palestinian natives in Jerusalem and makes it hard for them to obtain construction licenses.
Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes in the holy city is believed to be aimed at psychologically destroying the Jerusalemite families in an attempt to force them to move from their city.
