Israel demolishes Palestinian home in Jerusalem

Israeli occupation bulldozers yesterday demolished a Palestinian home in the neighbourhood of Silwan, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Quds Press reported.

Palestinian citizen Mahmoud Ali Toma, from Jerusalem, said that the Israeli bulldozers demolished the house of his son, claiming it had no building licence.

He said that the house was 110 square metres and was home to his son and his family of six.

Toma also said that his son had paid a sum of 100,000 shekels ($29,000) in fines to avoid the demolition.

The Israeli municipality in Jerusalem rarely issues the necessary building licences to Palestinians living in “Area C” of the occupied West Bank.

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Palestinian citizen Jamil Abu-Maria was handed a demolition notice for a construction on his farm in the occupied Hebron neighbourhood of Beit Amer.

Anti-Settlement Palestinian activist Yousef Abu-Maria said the structure was built two years ago with EU funds.