Israeli bulldozers on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian house in Lod city in the 1948 occupied Palestine under the pretext of being built without a permit.
Local sources reported that the Israeli police forces stormed al-Mahatta neighborhood in Lod and demolished a house under construction owned by Martin Baidas.
Member of the Lod Popular Committee Ayman Shreiki told Quds Press that Baidas was surprised by the Israeli bulldozers storming the neighborhood and demolishing his house without prior notice despite the fact that he had completed all procedures needed to obtain a license and freeze the demolition order.
Shreiki said that the Israeli authorities crack down on Palestinian citizens in Lod refuse to issue them building permits and work on the other hand to expand Jewish neighborhoods in the city.
Al-Mahatta (station) neighborhood is one of the most ancient neighborhoods in Lod. It has this name because of the train station which was established there during the Ottoman era to link train stations in northern central and southern Palestine.
