A Palestinian family in Shu’fat refugee camp in Jerusalem on Friday embarked on demolishing their four-storey house based on an order by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Palestinian citizen Tareq Ali said the Israeli Supreme Court two weeks ago ordered his family to demolish their home under the pretext that it was built without a permit.
Otherwise according to the court order the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality would carry out the demolition and force them to pay steep fines.
Ali said that his family bought a bulldozer on Friday and started the demolition to avoid paying exorbitant demolition costs to the Israeli municipality.
