Distributing administrative demolition orders in Silwan
Joint crews from the Jerusalem municipality and Special Forces raided on Monday the town of Silwan and distributed demolition orders for several houses, commercial stores and barracks. Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that the municipality crews took pictures of the residential establishments and commercial stores in some of the neighborhoods and alleys of Silwan. Daoud Siam explained that the municipality hung an administrative demolition order on a building owned by his family in the neighborhood of Bi’er Ayoub in Silwan. Daoud also explained that the demolition order is for the third and fourth floors of a building that consists of 5 floors and that is owned by him and his brothers Maher and Ayoub. Each floor consists of two rooms, a living room and their facilities and they were built in 1995. Ayoub, his wife and their children (10 individuals) live in one of the floors and Maher, his sister and her children (10 individuals) live in the other; note that the area of both floors is 260 square meters. Daoud pointed out that several demolition orders were issued against those two floors by the Jerusalem municipality and he had appealed the decisions and paid more than 850 thousand NIS in violation fines. In the last two months, he had paid more than 50 thousand NIS for the lawyers and engineers. The municipality crews also handed a demolition order to a parking garage owned by Eyad Ramadan Siam and a grocery store owned by the family of Abu Hadwan in Wadi Hilweh. They also took pictures of the house of Jawad Siam, director of Wadi Hilweh Information Center, and the neighborhoods of Silwan. The joint crews also handed a demolition order to a parking garage in Ein Al-Lozeh which should be executed within 30 days.
