Caterpillar bulldozers are seen demolishing a residential home in the Jabal Mukabbir neighborhood in east Jerusalem, May 21, 2013. The home was demolished on the grounds that it was built without a "legal building permit" (Photo: Activestills)

ICAHD deplores decision to resume punitive house demolitions

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) deplores and denounces the decision of the Netanyahu government to resume the demolition of homes of those “suspected or convicted of involvement in terrorism and other violence.” All house demolitions in the Palestinian occupied territories “are war crimes, but the demolition of homes of innocent family members of people accused of crimes constitutes…

House demolition in A-Tur, East Jerusalem, June 2009. A Day after the municipality of Jerusalem announced it'd stop demolishing homes in East Jerusalem, Abu-Jumaa's house in A-Tur was demolished (Photo: Activestills)

Municipality of Jerusalem issues demolition orders to displace 19 Palestinian residents

Inspectors of Jerusalem municipality on Monday handed a demolition warrant to a Palestinian family notifying them that two residential buildings are scheduled to be demolished, potentially displacing 19 people. According to Ma’an Palestinian News Agency, the Siyam family where told that the buildings in Silwan neighborhood would be demolished “because they were constructed without the…

Demonstrators block major road in protest over home demolition

Thousands of Arab-Palestinians blocked Route 65 in Wadi Ara (Northern Israel) on Friday protesting the demolition  of a house belonging to Abu Sharkiye family which the government claims was built illegally. Protesters hurled stones, while police forces fired  tear gas and shock grenades. The police arrested two demonstrators for allegedly “attacking officers.” The house which…

UN tells Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian homes

United Nations has demanded that Israel stops the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank following a report on the dramatic increase in homes being knocked down. “The current policy and practice of demolition causes extensive human suffering and should end,” said the UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, Maxwell Gaylard.…