OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PC)– The Israeli Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon turned down appeals to stop the demolition of three Palestinian family homes in Occupied Jerusalem.
A petition was brought before the Israeli Supreme Court by the HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual on 26 November 2014 to call off the demolition orders after an earlier petition to that end had been rejected by the District Court.
Lawyer of the Akari family Midhat Diba said the Israeli occupation war ministry clung to the demolition issue as a collective punishment policy that coincides with the mounting Israeli vandalism and violence against Palestinians.
The demolition issue targeting al-Akari’s family home was allegedly founded on a set of “inciting” statements released by the martyr’s brother Mansour he added.
The lawyer said the order was based on the 1945 Emergency Regulations which gave Israel’s war ministry the green light to step up such demolitions especially in Occupied Jerusalem.
An annual report released by al-Maqdisi Foundation documented the demolition of 1342 structures east of Occupied Jerusalem city between 2000 and 2014 112 among which were knocked down in 2014.
Over 5760 Palestinians including 1506 women and 3031 children have gone homeless after their residential shelters had been reduced to rubble by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA).
The institution raised alarm bells over the psycho-social impacts of Israel’s demolition processes dubbing such a policy a crime against humanity and an oppressive measure that flouts the maxims of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
