The Israeli authorities on Thursday demolished two Palestinian homes in Lod city in the central district of Israel (the 1948 occupied lands) at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Member of the Lod municipal council Abdul-Kareem Zabarqa stated that a large number of police forces stormed a neighborhood in the city and encircled two houses belonging to a local resident called Suleiman Zabarqa before bulldozers embarked on knocking them down.
“What happened today in Lod city was part of Israel’s systematic demolition policy that targets the homes of Palestinians despite their suffering from a severe housing crisis in light of their inability to buy or build other homes” Quds Press quoted the municipal official Zabarqa as saying.
The municipality of Lod (headed by Yair Revivo) has chosen the policy of demolition instead of organizing and licensing the unlicensed houses in the city” he said.
Several Israeli reports have talked about an Israeli plan to bring more Jews to live in Lod city and impose housing restrictions on the Palestinians in order to create a demographic reality in favor of the Jews.
Over 30 percent of the population in Lod is Palestinian and the percentage is rising and such a demographic situation has aroused fears among Israeli decision-makers who have increased their efforts to obliterate the Palestinian identity of Arab towns in Israel.
