OCCUPIED JERUSASLEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority has ordered the demolition of four Palestinian homes in Wadi Al-Joz suburb and Shafat refugee camp in the occupied city of Jerusalem, alleging that those homes were close to the apartheid wall.
According to local sources in the occupied city, Israeli bulldozers started the demolition work in front of their owners' eyes in clear violation of human rights.
The sources added that 12 Palestinian families received demolition notices from the court a few days ago, but they were surprised by the sudden implementation of the court's order without giving them the right to contest it.
The Quds center for economic and social rights warned that tens of buildings in the old town of the city and Silwan village could collapse due to the relentless Israeli excavations under those buildings.
In a statement it issued Sunday in reaction to the collapse of an UNRWA-run classroom in Silwan, the center explained that the collapse was a "natural" result of the continued Israeli diggings under the town.
Dozens of Palestinian buildings in Jerusalem may collapse due to excavations
[ 03/02/2009 - 04:34 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Jerusalem center for social and economic rights warned Tuesday of the collapse of dozens of Palestinian homes and other buildi gs in the old city and the Silwan town south of occupied Jerusalem as a result of the continued Israeli excavation beneath and around these buildings.
In a report, the center explained that the collapse, which occurred at the UNRWA Jerusalem school in the Silwan town, was the result of an outgrowth of wide and dangerous excavations being carried out by Israel under the Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian real estate in the town especially in the areas of Ein Helwa and Ein El-Louz, where there is a set of deep and wide tunnels branching from Ein Silwan and going north towards the southern wall of the Aqsa Mosque.
The report added that dozens of Jerusalemite real estate over the course of these excavations are threatened with collapse and some sustained cracks and fissures that made them unfit for human habitation and susceptible to breakdown any moment.
It pointed out that wide construction additions are being carried out under and on the surface of dozens of settlement outposts which are scattered in the Silwan town and associated with ground network of tunnels extending to the Buraq wall.
The report also noted that the IOA intensified the building of new synagogues in the old city where it opened a few months ago a huge synagogue consisting of four stories above ground and two stories underground.
Muslims, Christians in Jerusalem united against the Israeli excavations
[ 03/02/2009 - 04:20 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian Muslim and Christian figures have highlighted the importance of the Palestinian unity in protecting occupied Jerusalem from the intensified Israeli practices to judaize the city.
Dr. Ekrema Sabri, the chairman of the higher Islamic authority in Jerusalem, who was present at the conference, highlighted the dangers that engulf the occupied city and the holy Aqsa Mosque as a result of the Israeli hostile practices and excavations in the city. He pointed to the collapse of a classroom in an UNRWA-run school in the Selwan suburb, which is close to the walls of the Mosque.
Patriarch Michael Sabbah, of the Latin Christian Church, stressed that the Palestinian people have clear legal rights in Jerusalem that the entire world is aware of.
"Simply speaking, we want our land that was occupied in 1967 to be returned to us to establish our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital", asserted Sabbah, adding that Palestinian unity would play strong and crucial role in achieving this goal.
Adnan Al-Husseini, the city's governor, blamed the UNESCO for its "feeble" action in protecting the city's heritage against the Israeli deliberate distortion.
For his part, the prominent Palestinian Christian leader archimandrite Atallah Hanna, of the Orthodox Church, underscored that the Israeli war on Gaza was a big conspiracy that is not limited to destroy Gaza and Hamas Movement, but, he added, the brutal war was targeting the entire Palestinian people regardless of their political or religious affiliations.
The archimandrite, furthermore, deprecated those who applauded Israeli president Shimon Peres during the Davos forum, stressing that those who applaud criminals are also partners in the crime.
The prominent Muslim leader in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands Sheikh Raed Salah concluded the conference by exhibiting pictures exposing the Israeli conspiracy to demolish the Aqsa Mosque, warning that the Israeli excavations under the Mosque reached alarming levels.
He suggested the establishment of an Islamic fund to support the Palestinian Jerusalemites, and the Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem.
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