The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday afternoon displaced two Palestinian families after demolishing their apartments in the east Jerusalem town of at-Tur and assaulted them along with journalists and supporters.
According to local sources police forces savagely assaulted journalists activists and residents as bulldozers were tearing down the building injuring nine of them and arresting three others.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that an Israeli demolition crew escorted by police forces forcibly removed the residents of the two apartments and their furniture.
The families of Karameh (owner) and Qirrash (tenant) were rendered homeless as a result of the Israeli measure which was carried out at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The PIC reporter said that police forces fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at journalists as they were reporting what happened injuring one of them with a rubber bullet in his shoulder.
The IOA has intensified its demolition campaign in recent months against Palestinian homes and structures across the holy city as part of its Judaization efforts.
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.
