On the afternoon of February 18, 2022, the citizen Nassib Muhammad Obaid from Haret Obaid in Al-Isawiya demolished a residential addition to his house. Demolishing the additional part, within two weeks, otherwise, the municipality will storm the place and carry out the demolition process, which will cost the owner about 80,000 shekels, about 22,000 US dollars.

It should be noted that the entire residence is threatened with demolition by the municipality, and that the courts are still in place, and a decision on the matter of the house is supposed to be completed in May 2022.

The house is inhabited by the family of Nassib Obaid, which consisted of ten people, including five sons and five daughters. The owner had begun to expand the building at a cost of about 70,000 shekels, 20 thousand US dollars, and with this expansion, he wanted to ease the narrowness of space for his family and also to help his son get married. The substitution has deprived him and his family of this endeavor and imposed restrictions and large sums on him, including paying him about 50,000 shekels 16,000 dollars, to an engineer who was previously appointed to carry out the planning and organizing procedures, but this has gone when the demolishing took place, and the owner expressed his grief and his family about losing the dream that his whole family longed for. And he added, "Palestinian officials must follow up on these crimes and provide all necessary assistance to the stricken families."

As for his son, his marriage project may be postponed due to the need to compensate for construction losses on the one hand, and that this step requires finding a place for rent to accommodate the owner’s son on the other hand.

Al-Isawiya village is located to the northeast of Jerusalem, about 5 km away from the city, and consists of a mountainous area, and foothills, surrounded by settlement projects on all sides. The Hebrew University and its facilities and residences are from the southeast, and Hadassah Hospital and its facilities and residences are from the western side. Vast areas of the village’s land, and the presence of the separation wall on its eastern and northern sides, which separated it from its natural Palestinian surroundings. It is worth mentioning that demolitions are repeated almost daily in the village, in the inhabited neighborhoods and marginal lands alike.