Ahlul Bayt News Agency - An official source in the PA presidency revealed that nearly 20,000 homes are threatened with demolition in occupied Jerusalem under the pretext of being built without permits.
Lawyer and Jerusalem Affairs Adviser for the Palestinian Presidency, Ahmed Rwaidy, affirmed that the Israeli occupation authorities plan to demolish dozens of homes in Jerusalem for allegedly being built without permit.
Israeli demolition policy mainly aims at changing the geographic and demographic realities in occupied Jerusalem, he said.
Israel works at decreasing the Palestinian population in occupied Jerusalem to approximately 15% of the total population of the city, the PA official continued.
Earlier Tuesday, Israeli occupation municipality demolished a Jerusalemite apartment, two rooms, and four stores in Silwan town to the south of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Along the same line, OCHA revealed in an earlier report that Israeli authorities destroyed 39 homes in occupied Jerusalem since the beginning of 2015.
In the same context, B’Tsalem revealed that since the annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli authorities have promoted the two-fold goal of expanding the city’s Jewish population and reducing its Palestinian population. Various steps have been adopted to achieve this objective, including the isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, land appropriation, and discriminatory policies on planning and construction and budget allotment.
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