The Israeli municipality issued 92 demolition orders in various towns and neighborhoods
Dozens join the list of the displaced in Jerusalem within a week
Silwan neighborhoods are more likely to be demolished because they are adjacent to Al-Aqsa.
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The children of Jerusalem fear forced displacement.
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The home of the Jerusalemite woman, Umm Amer Abu Eid.
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Wadi Yasoul is one of the areas most exposed to house demolitions.
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Iyad al-Ghouj with his two children, Imad and Winal.
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Fakhri Abu Diab: "Israeli demolitions abound in the towns and neighborhoods adjacent to or around the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, by increasing the number of demolition orders and preventing Palestinian construction in them, in the interest of establishing settlement projects."
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Residents of several neighborhoods and towns in the Holy City of Jerusalem are facing the threat of eviction and displacement, as was the custom within the historic city walls, but what was different from the previous one this time, is that the Israeli occupation municipality issued during the third week of July 92 demolition orders for homes and facilities sanctity.
The new demolition orders were distributed to the neighborhoods of Silwan, Jabal Mukaber, Sur Baher, Beit Hanina, Al-Isawiya, Al-Tur and Shuafat, all of which witness a high population density and high traffic. Low-rise buildings, in addition to many of them adjacent to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, or directly overlooking it.
In the face of the massive forced displacement, fear remains the most prominent present in Jerusalem’s neighborhoods and towns, as it overshadows the owners of homes and facilities that have received demolition notices, who fear that the occupation municipality’s bulldozers will implement Israeli decisions at any moment, and the displacement of dozens of women and children between roads and sidewalks.
Expansion of the demolition area
Towards the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, 100 meters to the south, the neighborhoods of Silwan town witnessed 16 demolition orders for single houses and multi-storey residential buildings, in addition to several houses that received administrative demolition orders, in the neighborhoods of Wadi Yasoul, Al-Bustan, and Ain Al-Lawzeh, inside the city of Jerusalem .
In doing so, the nightmare of demolition and displacement creeps into the house of Jerusalemite Umm Amer Abu Aida, a resident of “Wadi Yasoul” neighborhood in Silwan, as a result of Israeli decisions affecting her home and several housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhood.
Um Amer Abu Aida's single-storey house is the only shelter for ten people, half of whom are children, in addition to her son's newly built house for him and his wife to live in.
In the town of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, Israeli municipality staff and the Israeli police posted demolition orders on the gates and entrances of three buildings consisting of large number of residential apartments. In the neighborhood of Ahmed Shawky.
Moving to the town of Sur Baher, the occupation municipality crews stopped construction in a building under construction, under the pretext of being built without a permit, and suspended demolition orders on the walls under construction, in the areas of Al-Maqata’ and Wa’ret Atta.
constant worry
Inside Al-Tur town, east of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, the Jerusalemite, Iyad Al-Ghouj (28 years), lives in a constant state of anxiety about the Israeli municipality bulldozers demolishing his house, within the residential building that received a demolition notice, in the Al-Sahel area inside the city of Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without permit, and to become homeless, accompanied by his family, children and parents within his homeland, and on his land.
Thus, the two children, Imad and Iyad al-Ghouj, join the 35 Jerusalemite children who live inside the al-Tur building, which is threatened with demolition and being flattened, while the specter of displacement haunts them at all times.
Al-Quds Al-Ghouj indicated that he lives with his parents, brothers, wife and two children (10) in an apartment inside the five-storey residential building, which includes 10 apartments. 2011.
wide campaign
The 92 demolition orders are part of a campaign launched by the occupation municipality in the Holy City of Jerusalem, which will continue until the fifteenth of next August, to impose what it called laws regulating construction and law enforcement on Jerusalemites.
According to demolition orders or Israeli administrative decisions, the occupation municipality can demolish the building within 30 days, from delivering the decision and the administrative order to the house that received a demolition notice, or hanging it on its door, without the need to issue a court order, and the signature of the mayor or another official inside it is sufficient. Fakhri Abu Diab, spokesman for the Defense Committee for Silwan Residents, said.
In his interview with Emirates Today, Abu Diab points out that Israeli demolitions abound in the towns and neighborhoods adjacent to or surrounding Al-Aqsa Mosque, by increasing the number of demolition orders and preventing Palestinian construction in them, in the interest of establishing settlement projects.
It shows that entire neighborhoods in the town of Silwan, which is the southern flank of the Temple Mount, are threatened with demolition, including Al-Bustan, Wadi Yasoul, and Ain Al-Lawzeh, as well as more than 2,100 units in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Al-Mukabber, which are threatened with demolition, in the interest of expanding the American settlement road. Perched on the lands of Jerusalemites.
A spokesman for the Committee for the Defense of Silwan Residents says: “The occupation municipality has implemented the new demolition orders, during the next few days, to commit a mass forced displacement crime inside the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. About buildings and demolition in the municipality.
In the direction towards the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and 100 meters to the south, the neighborhoods of Silwan town witnessed 16 demolition orders for single houses and multi-storey residential buildings, in addition to several houses that received administrative demolition orders, in the neighborhoods of Wadi Yasoul, Al Bustan, and Ain Al Loza, inside the town Jerusalem.
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