JERUSALAM, May 22, 2007, (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation authorities handed over on Tuesday morning notifications of demolishing to dozens of citizens in different neighborhoods in Jerusalem, under pretext of having no building license.

Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the crews of the so-called Control buildings in Jerusalem municipality is now storming several neighborhoods of Jerusalem, particularly in the north-eastern region of Beit Hanina and Shuafat and the south-eastern region of Sur Bahir, Umm Tuba and Jabel Mukaber.

According to the text of the notifications, witnesses said that the demolitions will be due to the construction of houses without a license, a signatory is on behalf of the extremist rightist mayor.

A number of houses' owners told WAFA that they are continuing to pay the value of huge financial irregularities that the occupation municipality had imposed on them because of having no license. " We swarm towards obtaining the required licenses, but the municipal departments try to impede us for many reasons, simply as an attempt to prevent Palestinian construction in the city and its neighbourhoods," the owners said.

M.H.(12:35 P)(09:35 GMT)