IOA carries out demolitions in J’lem and Jericho

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM  (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) demolished on Tuesday morning several Palestinian homes and forced two citizens to knock down their property in Jerusalem and Jericho.

According to local sources, the Israeli municipality in east Jerusalem bulldozed a printing facility belonging to the family of Aliyan in the Issawiya district. It forced a Jerusalemite citizen to demolish his own house in the Silwan district.

The municipality also forced another Jerusalemite citizen to demolish a commercial facility he had established several years ago in the Silwan district.

In Jericho, the IOA demolished four homes at the pretext of unlicensed construction. Two of the houses belonged to Palestinian citizens from Jerusalem.