Land Research Center

The family of the Jerusalemite, Ayesh Muhammad Ali Obaid, proceeded to self-demolish their house after the occupation municipality threatened to storm and carry out the demolition. Which coasted them 350 thousand shekels, equivalent to 110 thousand US dollars).

The municipality stormed the place in late December and threatened to demolish it immediately. The owner was able to freeze the matter for a month, but the municipality came back and notified him of the immediate demolition within 48 hours, otherwise he will be fined 80,000 shekels (22 thousand dollars), forcing the owner to do by self-demolition and by using a bulldozer, which faced great difficulties in reaching the place, and in this, the city’s storming of the place and the demolition of a large retaining wall, and the complete sabotage of the place, were avoided. This forced the owner to clean the place from the rubble of the demolished house.

Ayed Obaid, whose family consists of 9 members, expressed the difficulty of forcing a person to demolish his house, the house of his dreams and the dreams of his children. A lot) and he added (There is neither might nor power except with God, the Exalted, the Great).

Al-Isawiya village is located to the northeast of the city of Jerusalem, and it is considered as a large prison due to the presence of a large concentration of settlements around it. On the southern and western side, the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital sit on its land, while on the eastern and northern side, there are many winding roads, and the wall separates it from the natural extension of its surroundings, such as the town of al-Zaim and the eastern and northern regions of the town.