The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced a Palestinian family on Wednesday after demolishing their apartment building in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan south of the Aqsa Mosque.
According to local sources 50 individuals including children from the family of al-Husseini lived in that building which the Israeli municipality razed at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The IOA also forced on the same day a Jerusalemite citizen to start demolishing his house at his own expense in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber claiming it was built with no permit.
The owner Diaa Hisham had already received a notice from the Israeli municipality ordering him to demolish his home in Jabel Mukaber.
He had to comply with the measure in order to avoid paying exorbitant demolition expenses and fines to the municipality.
Hundreds of Jerusalemite homes are threatened with demolition or appropriation as part of Israel’s Judaization plans in the occupied holy city.
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 east 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 the city.
