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WATCH: Palestinian father forced to demolish home in Jerusalem

[email protected] October 23, 2019 family, home demolition, homelessness, Iyad Bashir, Jabal al Mukabbir, Jerusalem, Palestinian, Sultan Bashir

A Palestinian father in East Jerusalem had to tear down his home after he received a demolition order from Israeli authorities. He said: “I built the house stone by stone and slowly completed it.” Israeli claimed it was ‘too near the US Embassy.’ See video of the demolition…

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Gideon Levy: a Quiet, Cruel Population Transfer in South Hebron Hills

[email protected] September 30, 2019 home demolition, homelessness, israeli settlement, land confiscation, occupation, south hebron hills

Demolition of Palestinian homes – last week’s excuse was to create Israeli “nature reserves,” this week a “firing zone” – causes now-homeless Mahmoud Hamamdi to ask, “Who is the terrorist: the one who builds a house or the one who demolishes a house?”

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