MSD: Israel has razed 1, 485 homes in east J'lem since its occupation

[ 30/11/2010 - 10:44 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Al-Maqdesi for society development (MSD) foundation said Israel has demolished 1, 485 Palestinian homes in the eastern part of occupied Jerusalem since 1967 and issued 1, 322 orders to raze homes in the same area in 2009 and 2010.

The foundation noted that if the Israeli occupation authority carried out these orders, 3, 655 Palestinians, including 1, 699 children and 807 women, would be displaced from their homes.

It also said it would publish later another report about demolition of homes and structures in the West Bank and the Gaza.

MSD added that its documentation of these demolitions lasted five months and was based on reliable information collected from newspapers, concerned organizations and displaced Palestinians.

IOA destroys printing press, house in OJ

[ 30/11/2010 - 03:56 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation authority (IOA) bulldozers leveled a Palestinian printing press and a house in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, local sources reported.

They said that security forces accompanied the IOA municipal teams that bulldozed the 60-square-meter printing press in the southern outskirts of Isawiye village.

The IOA bulldozers also razed a Palestinian home in central occupied Jerusalem at the usual pretext of lack of building permit.

Locals said that the municipal teams threatened to go back to pull down more homes after demolishing the 140-square-meter house.

Meanwhile a large number of IOF soldiers had threatened to knock down a mosque in Ma'sara village, Bethlehem, after storming the town on Sunday.

Local sources said that the IOF soldiers told the inhabitants after blocking all village entrances that the mosque would be blown up on 23/12 while two citizens in the same village were served demolition notices for their homes.

Furthermore, IOF troops rounded up seven Palestinian citizens in the West Bank on Tuesday, describing them as wanted persons.

Palestinian sources said that the IOF troops took into custody the municipality chief of Al-Malih village in the northern Jordan Valley.



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