The dozers of Israeli occupation municipality demolished on March 14, 2017 an under-construction building in the village of Isawiya owned by Majdi Mustafa under claim of "unlicensed construction"

The municipality bulldozers and a massive force from  Israeli police and Special Forces raided the village, surrounded the building of Majdi Mustafa and demolished it. Noteworthy, entry and exit from and to the village was banned during the demolition operation.

Citizen Majdi told Land Research Center the following:

" Since 2007, I have worked been working hard to issue a construction permit for the building; I submitted all needed documents for the municipality but employees of the municipality kept on ordering new documents . after all attempts, I decided to initiate the construction on 120m². It is when the occupation municipality employees arrived at the location and photographed the building.

In the morning of next day, dozers and Israeli forces surrounded the building and brought it down".

Land Research Center LRC sees that demolitions contradict with all the International conventions and Humanitarian laws including:

Article 17 of the (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights stating: “Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.”

Section ‹G› of article 23 of the (1907) The Hague Conventions asserting: “In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden to destroy or seize the enemy's property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war.”

Article 53 of the Geneva Fourth Convention (1948) declaring: “Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property belonging individually or collectively to private persons, or to the State, or to other public authorities, or to social or cooperative organizations, is prohibited, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.”

Section 1, Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966): “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions.

This case study is part of Kan'aan Project