The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem’s staff, escorted by Israeli police forces, stormed the Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, on Friday.
Residents of Silwan told Ma’an that staff from the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem stormed several areas of the neighborhood, under armed protection by Israeli police forces, and photographed residential and commercial buildings and raided a few of them.
Israeli police officers and several employees of the City Council of occupied Jerusalem, invaded on Friday at noon, Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and photographed many homes and stores.https://t.co/PLJat64MPZ pic.twitter.com/weaDRZhHKS
— Aoude (@AoudeA) October 12, 2018
The staff briefly confiscated the ID’s of some residents and documented their names.
The staff also threatened to demolish the buildings that were built without the difficult-to-obtain Israeli permit and handed out summon notices for several residents to meet with the municipality.
Residents pointed out that the staff regularly storms Silwan every week and takes pictures of the residential and commercial buildings, as well as agricultural lands.
Another video of the Israel's demolition of a Palestinian home in Silwan, Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/ktJZNBvrb8
via @btselem— Palestine Video (@PalestineVideo) February 7, 2018
Israel uses the pretext of building without a permit to carry out demolitions of Palestinian-owned homes on a regular basis.
Israel rarely grants Palestinians permits to build in East Jerusalem, though the Jerusalem municipality has claimed that compared to the Jewish population, they receive a disproportionately low number of permit applications from Palestinian communities, which also see high approval ratings.
#arrests#Israeli illegal occupation Forces have abducted 2 siblings Suad Abu Ramouz & her brother Jawad Abu Ramouz from Batn al-Hawa area in #Silwan neighborhood of occupied East #Jerusalem#GroupPalestine#قروب_فلسطيني
11/10/18 pic.twitter.com/AGPmgGyjT0— ✖️???? Ᾰฑฑ༈℮ ????✖️ (@Betelgeuse100) October 11, 2018
For Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem, the planning, marketing, development, and infrastructure are funded and executed by the Israeli government. By contrast, in Palestinian neighborhoods, all the burden falls on individual families to contend with a lengthy permit application that can last several years and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
(Ma’an, PC, Social Media)
