The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) demolished on Wednesday a five-story apartment building in Anata town northeast of Jerusalem at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
According to local sources bulldozers escorted by police forces stormed as-Salam neighborhood in Anata and embarked on knocking it down with no prior notice.
Some of the apartments in that building were reportedly inhabited while the others were under construction.
Like in the West Bank the IOA systematically demolishes Palestinian homes and structures in east Jerusalem at the pretext of unlicensed construction while it prevents the local residents from obtaining permits or makes it difficult for them to meet construction conditions.
