The destroyed part of the restaurant in Beit Safafa.
Israeli bulldozers under army escort on Thursday demolished three
Palestinian structures built without construction permits in the
Jerusalem neighborhoods of Silwan and Beit Safafa, the owners told Ma'an.
Nadia Abu Diab said that Jerusalem municipality
excavators tore down a two-story building and unfinished apartment
belonging to her family in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.She
said the 125-square meter apartment had been under construction since
September last year, and that her family had been in the process of
obtaining a license. She said the Jerusalem municipality demolished the
apartment without prior notice.
Separately, in Beit
Safafa, a Palestinian neighborhood divided between East and West
Jerusalem, Israeli bulldozers demolished part of a restaurant belonging
to local resident Imad Burqan. Burqan told Ma'an the
Jerusalem municipality demolished an extension of the Mediterranean
Restaurant made of tin sheets and steel bars that he had added to the
building about three months ago.Construction licenses are
very expensive and difficult to obtain for Palestinians, notably in the
Jerusalem area, in a bid by Israeli authorities to force Palestinians
out and change the demographic balance of the city.
On Wednesday morning Israel demolished five dwellings housing
Palestinian Bedouin families in the Abu Nuwwar community east of
Jerusalem -- part of the wider E1 corridor -- leaving 25 people homeless.
Dawood al-Jahalin, a spokesperson for the Abu
Nuwwar Bedouin community, told Ma'an that Israeli military and police
vehicles surrounded the area at around 8:30 a.m., before bulldozers
demolished five dwellings and an agricultural structure.The
families were not given any time to remove their belongings before the
dwellings -- made of steel, wood, and canvas -- were torn down, he said.
Abu Nuwwar is one of several Bedouin villages facing forced evacuation
due to plans by Israeli authorities to build thousands of homes for
Jewish-only settlements in the E1 corridor.
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