Wednesday, March 24^th 2021, the Occupation bulldozers demolished a house in Jabl Al-Mukabir neighborhood, on the pretext of building without a license. The targeted house belongs to citizen Khalid Al-‘Abassi and he lives at it with his family (7 members, 4 of them are children).

Citizen Al-‘Abassi told LRC:

“Wednesday morning, the Occupation police accompanied by a bulldozer raided the area, closed off the roads to the house, and carried out the demolition. Noteworthy, the house was already emptied since the occupation authorities sent a demolition notice, and set March 11^th as a final date for the demolition.”

Al-‘Abassi asserted:

“The targeted house was built in 2016, and it composes of two bedrooms, a kitchen, Bathroom, and a living room with a total area of 75 m², the Occupation’s municipality issued halt-of-work notice once the building was completed, where they filed an indictment and imposed a high fine (about 70,000 Shekels).

We later tried to get a license from the municipality, but all our attempts had failed especially that the municipality has impossible conditions, and requests expensive costs for the licensing procedures, today we moved to another house to live at temporarily until we find a new home.”

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 Al-‘Abassi house before and after the demolition

About Jabal Al Mukabbir:[1]

5 kilometers south Jerusalem city , Jabal Al Mukabbir is surrounded by Silwan (north, Ath Thuri (west) , Abu Dis and As-Sawahra Ash- Sharqiya (east) , As-Sawahra Al-Gharbiya (south).

Jabal Mukabbir and As-Sawahra Al-Gharbiya together have a total population of (21, 127 ) people in 2012 census-The Jerusalem academy of Israeli Studies-, Jabal Al Mukabbir has an area of 3,281 dunums , 682,7 of them are the towns built-up area.

Israeli settlements devoured 300 dunums of the town's lands:

[1] GIS-LRC

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