A crew from the Israeli municipality and police forces raided on Sunday morning a number of Palestinian homes in Silwan district in Occupied Jerusalem.
According to local sources a municipal crew and police officers broke into and searched several homes in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan and handed their owners summonses for questioning from the municipality in the holy city.
The Israeli municipality summons Jerusalemite citizens to question them about their homes and structures before issuing demolition orders or imposing heavy penalties on them.
Every once in a while Israeli municipal employees and police forces storm neighborhoods in Silwan and hand several Jerusalemite citizens demolition orders against homes and structures.
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.
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) always justifies the demolition of Palestinian homes in the holy city by claiming they lack building permits despite the fact that it does not provide such permits for Palestinian citizens.
The IOA also orders the Jerusalemites to raze their own homes and property or pay demolition fees to the municipality if they refuse to carry out demolition orders at their own expense.
Israel’s Judaization activities started in Silwan district and its nearby areas in 1996 when the Jewish neighborhood of Ma’ale Hazeitim emerged as a small settlement on the Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem.
