Occupied Quds - (Saba):
Zionist enemy forces continued to demolish Palestinian homes in the villages and towns of the occupied Quds governorate.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, local sources reported that enemy municipality vehicles demolished the 20-year-old house of Mahmoud Omar Abu Tir in Um Tuba village, south of occupied Quds.
The family explained that they submitted an application for a building permit, but the application was rejected under the pretext of ‘the lack of an organisational plan for the area’.
Local sources added that the citizen Adam Shkirat was forced to self-demolish his house in Jabal al-Mukaber town, southeast of the city, to avoid paying heavy fines. The house is estimated to be 100 square metres in size and is home to eight people.
In Silwan town, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, enemy municipality bulldozers and vehicles demolished a retaining wall belonging to the Bashir family.
Enemy bulldozers also demolished and bulldozed a residential room and walls in al-Bahira neighbourhood in Anata town, in addition to bulldozing trees and land and cutting electricity network lines in the area.
The Quds governorate said that the demolitions affected two temporary rooms provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as assistance to shelter the owners of houses destroyed by enemy forces in the past.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority monitored 73 demolitions carried out by the enemy authorities in April, affecting 152 structures, including 96 inhabited houses, ten uninhabited houses, and 34 agricultural facilities, concentrated in the governorates of: Tubas with 59 facilities, Hebron with 39, and Quds with 17.
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