The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced a Jerusalemite to demolish his house in the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood in order to make way for a Judaization project in the area.
The owner of the house Alaa Sanduqa said that the IOA handed him a demolition order for the first time in 2016 and at that time his two cousins and his neighbors were handed the same decision that is about 7 homes of Jerusalemites according to the Qastal network.
He added “I went to the (IOA) municipality and at that time they handed me a decision to demolish part of the house and after it was demolished a decision came last February to demolish the rest of the house.”
He continues “Before the recent demolition and the municipality’s review of this decision I was in my car and suddenly Israeli policemen came and told me ‘You are currently under arrest’ without specifying the reason.”
Sanduqa explained that when he went to the occupation police station they told him: “You have to pay 1500 shekels to the court” without knowing what the court was and what was the reason behind everything that happened and after he paid the required amount and left the center the lawyer told him that he had a court hearing to demolish the house.
He added with anger and oppression: “This house has been in existence for 60 years and it was on the verge of collapse and I reconstructed it at that time the municipality refused to grant us a decision to renew and it came back to us with the demolition order.”
Sanduqa said that the demolition order was issued because the IOA is seeking to establish a Judaization project “Biblical Garden” in the Wadi al-Joz area and there are approximately 25 homes that are threatened by demolition and displacement for that purpose.
Al-Qastal network has documented the demolition of 64 residential commercial and agricultural facilities in the occupied city of Jerusalem since the beginning of this year including facilities that were forcibly demolished by their owners under the threat of imposing fines against them.
