Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday knocked down a Palestinian house in Silwan town in Occupied Jerusalem.
Local residents said that Israel’s Jerusalem municipality on Tuesday demolished a home owned by the Palestinian citizen Mu’tasem al-Abbasi in Ain al-Louza neighborhood for allegedly being unlicensed.
They added that Israeli forces stormed the neighborhood in the morning forced al-Abbasi’s family out of the house and announced the area a closed military zone before the demolition started.
On 17 July the Israeli authorities demolished four shops in Silwan owned by the same family.