Violation: Forced self-demolition.

Date: January 13^th 2023.

Location: Wad Ad-Dum – Bet Hanina/ Occupied Jerusalem.

Victims: Citizen Harba Ar-Rajabi .

Perpetrators: The Occupation municipality and forces.

Description:

Friday, January 13^th 2023, the Occupation municipality in Jerusalem forced citizen Harbi Ar-Rajabi to demolish his own house in Wad Ad-Dam in Beit Hanina town. This is not the first time , ten years ago the occupation demolished a house that belongs to him with a total area of 150 m², and today they came back to demolish another part of it that has an area of 80 m², that he had never moved to yet , the owner built it as an expansion area for his house that composes of 3 room , and supposed to be a home for a family of 9 , among them 7 children and 3 females.

Citizen Ar-Rajabi told LRC: “only a week ago from the demolition, I received the first notice and was told to demolish the house in a week , or otherwise the municipality will show up and demolish the building and make me pay the costs that escalated to tens thousands of shekels that I don’t have at the moment.

Noteworthy, the house demolished 10 years ago cost 150 shekels for the construction , and I paid fines that amounted to 70 thousands , and once I finished all the payment , the occupation bulldozers showed up and demolished the building in one week.”

Ar-Rajabi asserts: “I filed several times for a licensing order , and I paid for a lawyer to prepare a legal file with the necessary papers , and I had to pay 70 thousand shekels of fines , and after everything I paid , they pasted a demolition order in the gate a week ago.”.

هدم الجزء الثاني من المسكن في 13 كانون ثاني 2023 

المسكن الذي هُدم قبل عشر سنوات 

About Beit Hanina:[1]

5 km north Jerusalem, Beit Hanina is surrounded by Bir Nabala (north), Beit Hanina down town (Bait Hanina town was divided to two parts by the Apartheid wall Upper Beit Hanaina and Beit Hanina down town) (west), Hizma (east) and Shufat (south). Beit Hanina has a population of 33,617 people in 2009, and an area of (8,877) , (3,341) dunums are a built up area.

The occupation confiscated over 3700 dunums for the following purposes:

Illegal colonies confiscated (3064) dunums as follows:

Bypass roads (50 +60) confiscated over 482 dunums.

Apartheid wall took over 50 dunums and has a length of (987) meters.

Occupation's military camps took over (103) dunums.

[1] GIS-LRC

Protecting Marginalized Communities in Jerusalem through Legal Support and Advocacy