Sara Dajani - Jerusalem

At the same time as the dawn of the dawn in the city of Jerusalem, Bilal al-Kiswani was surprised by the storming of about 50 soldiers of the Israeli occupation forces with his weapons and equipment and ordered the immediate evacuation of the house to implement the demolition decision, which Alkaswani and dozens of other families feared in the village of Wadi al- To the town of Sur Baher (south of Jerusalem).

Difficult moments experienced by the family reflected the image of displacement and the Palestinian Nakba again, when the occupation gave them a few minutes only barely able to awaken his sleeping children and take them out amid panic and fear, without taking anything out of the house or other belongings.

Bilal al-Kiswani and his family were not alone on this difficult day. While Israeli bulldozers demolished his house, other bulldozers razed the rest of the houses and expelled their owners with the force of arms, beatings and gas bombs, which the families faced until the last moment, trying to stay in their homes.

The occupation was issued in 2011 a decision to prevent construction on half the area of ​​the town of Sur Bahir (Reuters)

Entry by force
After several attempts by young men and women, the occupation cut off electricity from the village and blew up some doors so that he could enter the houses by force.

In response to the decision of the High Court of Justice, which on June 11 rejected a final petition submitted by the residents of the area, the families were given 30 days that ended several days before the demolition or exit of their homes; To implement the decision to demolish 11 buildings out of 16 buildings threatened, or about 100 apartments, some of them inhabited and some are still under construction.

"They demolished my house, including this house where my children were raised, and I established my family in front of my eyes, so they did not allow me to approach during the demolition," Bilal said, describing the barbaric situation in which the occupation expelled his family from their home.

This demolition is the largest collective demolition in Jerusalem in years. The occupation has so far displaced approximately 24 citizens, and more than 350 Jerusalemites have been affected. Their uninhabited apartments have been demolished. The land on which the buildings are located is classified as "A" Palestinian conflict, but lies within the confines of the separation wall.

A new catastrophe is added to the successive calamities on the city of Jerusalem, where the occupation has deprived dozens of Jerusalemite families from their homes and from exercising a natural right to have a roof that shelters their wives and children.

The head of the Services Committee in the Wadi Hamis neighborhood Hamada Hamadeh said that the occupation after the demolition of ten buildings and the displacement of their families and assault them; planting explosives in a building belonging to the family of Abu Tair in preparation for the bombing, which is still under construction,

The area of ​​the village is 3,000 dunums, and the beginning of the events is the year 2011, where the occupation issued a decision preventing construction on half of its area, under the pretext of security reasons. Because of the proximity of these lands from the separation wall separating the village and several other villages, Under Palestinian sovereignty.

House demolitions cause displacement of dozens of citizens (Reuters)


Hit and roll
Ali Obaidiya, a resident of the area, said, "They beat women and drove many men out of their homes by force."

He added that none of the residents of the area did not expect the occupation to demolish all these houses at the same time, and this barbarity, and that the occupation surrounded the area from the dawn of the day in full and no one was allowed to approach even the residents of the area themselves.

The village of Wadi al-Homs is outside the jurisdiction of the Israeli occupation council in Jerusalem, but it is located within the boundaries of the separation wall, or as the occupation classifies it as "the land of a bank inside the wall". After the residents of the region petitioned the court of the occupation in 2003 after drawing the path of the wall that divided the village into two parts.

The occupation changed the route of the wall and entered the village's land inside its borders, but it kept it under Palestinian sovereignty. All houses from the wall were reported to be 250-300 meters away, about 200 houses.