OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Israeli municipal authorities in Occupied Jerusalem demolished a home in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, south of Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of being built without an Israeli permit.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Israeli forces brought in military reinforcements during the raid, ahead of demolishing the home of Jerusalemite Shafi’ Abu Shafi’.
Earlier on Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court upheld an order to evict 13 residential units in the Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood, a move the Jerusalem Governorate considers part of an ongoing policy of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement aimed at emptying the holy city of its indigenous Palestinian residents and replacing them with settlers.
The governorate emphasized that these actions are intended to reinforce settlement control around Aqsa Mosque and link settlement outposts in Silwan, thereby increasing the suffering of local residents and threatening their basic right to housing.
Since 2015, around 16 families have been evicted from Batn Al-Hawa, while more Palestinians received eviction notices in January 2026. The governorate said that the settler organization “Ateret Cohanim” bases its claims on alleged land ownership dating back to 1881, for an area estimated at 5.2 dunums.
