Day 285 Jerusalem during “Al-Aqsa Flood” Operation
On the 285th day of "Al-Aqsa Flood Operation", the occupation municipality bulldozers demolished a residential building for the Jaber family, and the Qunbar family continued to empty their house for demolition, raids and arrests continued in the city, and settlers’ raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque continued.
Demolition and displacement... emptying a house
Municipal bulldozers demolished the Jaber family building in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in Jerusalem, displacing its residents, after the courts refused to license the building and freeze the demolition decision.
Joint crews from the municipality, the Nature and Parks Authority, special forces, and the police stormed the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood in the morning hours, completely surrounded the building’s surroundings, closed the roads leading to it, and then carried out the demolition operation, which continued until the afternoon hours.
Nader Jaber, the owner of the building, who watched the demolition process with sorrow and pain, explained that 14 people were left homeless, and said: “This house holds memories and past days, and today it is turning into stones and rubble.”
Jaber explained that the first floor of the building has been in place since the Jordanian era, and the second floor from the 1990s, pointing out that more than one million shekels in “demolition violations” were imposed on the building, and a new violation will be imposed on him for “the demolition fee for the municipality and its accompanying crews,” worth 150,000 shekels.
The Jaber family pointed out that the Nature and Parks Authority is trying to control all the lands in this area, to turn them into public parks. They were the ones who submitted their appeal to the court over the decision to freeze the demolition of the building, and it was actually approved and the court issued the decision to demolish the building.
The municipality also demolished a retaining wall in the neighborhood, during the demolition of the Jaber family building.
The Qunbar family continued to empty their house in the village of Jabal Al-Mukabber, to implement the decision to self-demolish it next Saturday, under the pretext of building without a permit.
Continuous raids
The forces continued to storm towns and neighborhoods in the city of Jerusalem, setting up police checkpoints in the streets of the city, and carrying out random arrests.
The young man, Mohammad Fathi Abu Al-Hummos, was injured and bruised, and showed signs of beating, after his house in the village of Issawiya was stormed after midnight.
The young man, Bassam Qunbar, was sentenced to two years of actual imprisonment, and the young man, Mohammad Salaymeh, was sentenced to 9 months of actual imprisonment.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Settlers’ raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque continued, and 149 settlers carried out their raids into Al-Aqsa courtyards, through the Dung Gate, during the morning and afternoon incursion periods.
