OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Israeli-controlled municipality of occupied Jerusalem has bulldozed a Palestinian home built in Wadi Al-Joz suburb over 30 years ago the proprietors said.
Saadi Aramin the son of the owner Aisha Aramin said that his mother had repeatedly tried to obtain a construction permit but to no avail and noted that his grandfather and uncles had resided in that house.
He said that the municipality tractors arrived to their home on Tuesday without prior notice and flattened the small house after Israeli occupation policemen and border guards sealed off the entire suburb.
Aramin said that the municipality ordered the demolition of the house three years ago but his mother managed to win a court ruling blocking the act on temporary basis. The municipal court held a hearing two months later and ordered his mother to pay a fine which she could not afford he elaborated.
Aramin said that they tried for a year and a half to obtain a permit but the municipality insists on refusing any building request in the Arab suburbs of Jerusalem.
The municipality workers knocked down the house without allowing the inhabitants to get the furniture out.
