The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday displaced a Jerusalemite family after demolishing their home in Silwan district south of the Aqsa Mosque at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan Israeli municipal crews escorted by police forces stormed al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan cordoned off the area and then embarked on manually knocking down the house.
The family of Mohamed al-Rajabi said that Israeli municipal workers carried out the demolition using manual demolition equipment because it was not possible for bulldozers to reach the location of the house.
