Quds - Saba:
The Zionist enemy authorities served a Qudsi family with a notice to forcibly demolish their home on the pretext of lacking a building permit.
According to the Sanad News Agency, Qudsi sources reported that the Zionist municipality in Quds served the Burqan family in the Wadi Yasul neighborhood of Silwan with a decision to forcibly demolish their 100-square-meter home on the pretext of building without a permit.
The sources indicated that the home threatened with demolition is inhabited by Qudsi citizen Qusay Burqan with his three children and his parents. The family has been given until next Wednesday to carry out the demolition themselves, or the municipality will demolish it.
The Israeli occupation authorities force Qudsis to demolish their homes themselves or to pay the costs of demolition carried out by Israeli forces, with the aim of harassing them and forcing them to leave their lands and homes and displace them.
A report by the National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities are planning to displace approximately 800 Palestinians from the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan from their homes and lands, coinciding with similar plans to displace approximately 500 Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
The report issued by the National Bureau yesterday, Saturday, indicated that demolition and displacement threaten more than 100 homes, home to 1,550 Palestinians, in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan.
The report noted that these families who received demolition notices face a legal battle in Israeli courts, with the home demolition notices being renewed each time.
The area of Silwan is 5,640 dunams (1,500 acres) and includes 12 neighborhoods inhabited by approximately 58,500 Jerusalemites. There are also 78 settlement outposts in the town, home to 2,800 settlers.
The report emphasized that international law prohibits the policy of eviction, as confirmed by the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice issued last July. This was particularly true of the Absentee Property Law, which leads to the eviction of Palestinians from their homes in favor of settlers. The Court ruled that this policy constitutes a violation of international law.
The report highlighted the suffering and fear for the existence of 600 Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Quds.
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