The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday forced a Jerusalemite citizen to demolish his own house in Beit Hanina town and another one to demolish his stores in Jabel Mukaber neighborhood at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
According to local sources seven individuals of al-Rajbi families were rendered homeless after the IOA forced them to knock down their home in Beit Hanina northeast of the holy city.
The homeowner Jalal al-Rajbi said that he had received a few weeks ago a notice from the IOA ordering him to raze his own home at his own expense to avoid paying exorbitant money if its bulldozers carried out the measure.
He added that an Israeli court issued a verdict about two weeks ago in this regard and gave him one week to comply with it.
Rajbi lived in that house with his wife and five children.
Meanwhile the IOA forced the Khalaila family in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber to demolish three commercial stores belonging to it.
Malek Khalaila the owner said that the IOA forced him to raze three stores he rented to Jerusalemite citizens describing the property as a main source of livelihood for his family and the tenants.
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 and for that reason they are denied house permits.
The IOA also imposes building restrictions on the Palestinian natives in Jerusalem and makes it hard for them to obtain construction licenses.
Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem is believed to be aimed at psychologically destroying the Jerusalemite families in an attempt to force them to move from the holy city.
