The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Monday morning displaced two Palestinian families after demolishing their building in Shu’afat refugee camp, east of Jerusalem, at the pretext of unlicensed construction.

According to local sources, a large number of police forces escorting employees from the Israeli municipality and bulldozers stormed Ras Shahada neighborhood in Shu’afat camp and knocked down a house belonging to the families of Osama Ahmed Alkam and Iyhab Hasan Alkam.

Two families of 10 individuals, including women and children, were living in that house.

Osama and Ihyhab had already received a demolition ultimatum against their house from the Israeli municipality, which justified the measure by claiming the house was built with no license.

The Jerusalemites have no choice but to build without licenses because there are no structural maps that respond to the natural increase in their numbers, and for that reason, they are denied house permits by the Israeli municipality.

 

Source: The Palestinian Information Center