Several Palestinian Homes to Be Demolished by Israeli Forces in East Al-Quds
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A number of privately owned Palestinian houses in the occupied East al-Quds neighborhood of al-Tur are set to be demolished by Israeli forces, as land grab policies continue by the Tel Aviv regime.
Israeli police, accompanied by staff of the Israeli municipality of West al-Quds, stormed several neighborhoods in al-Tur, photographed a number of homes in the area and placed demolition notices against the structures, Palestinian WAFA news agency reported.
The local source did not provide further information on who owns the houses or when the demolitions will take place.
Earlier on Monday, local sources said that Israeli occupation forces demolished two Palestinian-owned houses in the town of Tarqumia, northwest of the southern occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron), in order to expand two illegal settlements.
The destruction of houses took place even though the land owners own legal papers that prove their ownership.
In a report issued in September, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the Israeli regime has demolished close to 9,000 Palestinian-owned structures since 2009, rendering thousands of Palestinians homeless. The demolitions have displaced some 13,000 Palestinians and inflicted losses on around 152,000 others, the UN report added.
To justify the demolitions, the regime has been claiming that their owners lack construction permit, which is almost impossible to obtain.
The Tel Aviv regime also regularly destroys the homes of Palestinians it blames for attacks on Israeli settlers, in an act of collective punishment condemned by human rights activists.
According to a recent survey, some 130,000 Palestinians who live in the areas occupied by Israel in 1948 face the threat of demolition of their homes and displacement even though they were not suspected of any wrongdoing.
The staggering increase in Israel's demolitions of Palestinian structures comes in the context of the propping up and expansion of illegal settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories, which continues amid a deafening silence from the international community.
