Israeli violations in the time of Corona

The Occupation municipality in Jerusalem forced Shalalda and ‘Aramin families to demolish their own houses in At-Tur village on the pretext of building without a license from the Occupation Authorities.

The Occupation municipality threatened that in case the owners breached the deadline, the municipality will hire bulldozers and staffs to carry out the operation and make them pay all the costs.

The targeted houses are built In “As-Sahel area” , and both of them were under constriction when the occupation’s municipality issued halt of work notices.

The targeted houses belong to:

Waleed Shalalda told LRC:

“One month ago, I started building a house for my family, as we have been living in a rented apartment for many years and need to have a permanent home, during the construction phase, the occupation municipality employees showed up and gave us a halt of work notice on the pretext of building without licenses.

We halted the construction and headed to the court to file a plea and apply for a license , but the Ministry of Interior had already issued an order and hanged it on the targeted structure , the order gave us only 72 hours to demolish the building or the municipality will carry out the demolition and make us pay all the costs.”

Both Shalada and ‘Aramin carried out the demolition in Friday July 3^rd 2020.

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