ISRAEL KNOCKS DOWN PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN HOME WEST AL QUDS

AL-Quds, 3 Jumadil Akhir 1436/23 March 2016 (MINA) – The Israeli occupation bulldozers on Sunday knocked down a Palestinian civilian home in Jerusalem’s town of Abu Ghush allegedly due to unlicensed construction.

Arab MK Basel Ghattas said the Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house west of Occupied Jerusalem city in such a remarkably “brutal” manner, The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) qioted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The two-story house is said to be owned by the Ibrahim family and that its license procedures have been underway to finalize the construction.

Ghattas called on the villagers to pitch a sit-in tent in protest at the arbitrary demolition, which he dubbed a retaliatory move acted in response to the natives’ election of the joint Arab list in Israel’s latest polls.

Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian activists joined a sit-in staged in front of the Sablaban family house in Jerusalem’s Old city in protest at Israel’s mounting evacuation threats and tactics of ethnic cleansing.

Earlier, one week ago, a bunch of Israeli vandals, escorted by police squads, tried to break into the Palestinian family home, but the natives stepped in and thwarted the assault.

The family appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to issue a decision banning Israeli settlers from storming the house. Another hearing to appeal an eviction decision is set to be held sometime by the end of May.

The family raised concerns that the Israeli fanatic settlers might re-break into their house, calling on the human rights groups and activists to stand by them in such dire circumstances.(T/P008/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)