The occupation notified the residents of an entire building with demolition, and kept the execution date unknown
Homelessness knocks on the door of 100 Jerusalemites in “Wadi Qaddoum”
The residential building is adjacent to Al-Aqsa on its southern side.
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Abu Ahmed and his family face an unknown fate.
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Abu Al Annabi's house on the second side of the residential building.
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The demolition decision displaced the children of the Jerusalemites.
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“My family and I live in a constant state of anxiety, since I received the notification of the demolition of my house. When I watch the police cars and the Israeli border guards driving in front of my house, I fear that they will demolish our shelter in front of our eyes, and homelessness is our fate that we have been drinking bitterly for 74 years.”
A state of anticipation of demolition and displacement haunts the Jerusalemite Abu Ahmad al-Anabi, a resident of Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is one kilometer away from the Temple Mount.
The same nightmare of eviction and displacement that haunts Annabi day and night also haunts 12 Jerusalemite families in Wadi Qaddoum, after the occupation municipality warned them to vacate the residential building they inhabit in the neighborhood, in preparation for its demolition, under the pretext of building without a permit.
On the last Monday of last May, these Jerusalemite families received decisions to vacate their homes, in preparation for the demolition of the building, which includes 12 apartments, spread over four floors, and which houses 100 Jerusalemites, most of whom are women and children.
anticipation
"Emirates Today" met Abu Ahmed al-Annabi in front of the apartment building in which he has lived since 2014, while expressions of anger and sadness crossed his face at the same time, for fear that the homes of their building would be demolished at any time, and suddenly.
Abu Ahmed said to "Emirates Today", while he was in the midst of his children, as a state of anticipation and fear overshadowed them, "The demolition notice we received did not include a date for the demolition, so that the danger of deportation and displacement suddenly caught us. to demolish it.”
Al Annabi explains that the demolitions are carried out by the occupation in the early morning hours, adding, “This means that we cannot empty our house if it is stormed by the Israeli forces. homes and residents throughout Jerusalem.”
On the same day the demolition orders were handed over, the occupation municipality crews and members of the Israeli police and intelligence stormed the residential building in Wadi Qaddoum, early while the residents were in deep sleep, forcibly smashing its doors and conducting engineering measurements, while calling on the residents to evacuate the building’s houses as soon as possible. time.
unknown fate
As a result of the occupation’s plan to demolish the Jerusalem neighborhood building, the Al-Annabi family, consisting of eight children, and the father and mother, face an unknown fate, distorting the features of their future existence on the land of Jerusalem. ) square metres.
The situation faced by the Abu Ahmad family is completely applicable to the rest of the families in the building, where the number of members of each family ranges from eight to 10, according to al-Anabi.
The Jerusalemite continues, “The Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood is adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque, as it is located within the town of Silwan, which is its southern flank, while the occupation plans with utmost effort to keep us away from the Temple Mount, and isolate us from the vicinity of the Old City, in which we were born, and we have lived among its alleys since Dozens of years, to expedite the implementation of his settlement plans, and to achieve his biggest goal, which is emptying Jerusalem of its original inhabitants.”
Procrastinate and then refuse
Since 2014, members of Jerusalemite families have been trying to obtain a building permit for their homes inside the building, by the occupation municipality in Jerusalem, which has delayed them for several years, and then refused to grant them that, while financial violations have been imposed on them during the past years, in addition to fining them for court costs. , and engineering companies in charge of surveying and measuring their home inside the apartment building.
“My house is the outcome of years’ misery, and now it is threatened with demolition and removal at any moment. In 2014, I paid (40) thousand Israeli shekels for the purchase of the apartment in which I and my family live, and we went through the procedures for obtaining building permits from the occupation municipality, which we did not obtain. Even today,” the hadith is still for al-Maqdisi Abu Ahmad.
Al Annabi points out that the occupation categorically refuses to grant families building permits on their land, to force them to leave, and issued the first demolition decision against them in 2014, and after delaying it for five years, the occupation municipality imposed on them paying financial violations under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Abu Ahmed continues, “We have paid exorbitant financial violations to the occupation municipality over the course of a year and a half, and we have tried to obtain the necessary licenses, but all our requests have been rejected by the municipality, which imposes impossible conditions on the residents of Jerusalem for obtaining a building permit on the land of their holy city.”
On the last Monday of last May, 12 Jerusalemite families received orders to vacate their homes, in preparation for the demolition of the four-storey building, which houses 100 Jerusalemites.
Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood is adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque, as it is located inside the town of Silwan, which is its southern flank, while the occupation plans with utmost effort to keep the residents away from the Temple Mount, and isolate them from the vicinity of the Old City.
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