JERUSALEM, December 22, 2009 (WAFA)- Two Jerusalemite families will be forced to evacuate their houses before December 24, 2009, according to 8 demolition orders issued by Jerusalem municipality to Joma’a and Al-Khalaila families in Jabal Al-Mukaber neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

The most dangerous order concerns the demolition of the neighborhood’s mosque, in addition to the 8 houses that host 69 people, including 45 children.

The families told Al-Maqdese –a nongovernmental rights center- that their suffering started when the Israelis has built the Israeli Apartheid Wall near their houses and tend to build a bridge in the area.

Accordingly, 2 families submitted an objection to the Municipality against the construction of the bridge on the basis that their houses exist there since 100 years (since 1920, before both the Wall and the planned bridge). The Municipality, nonetheless, refused the objection under the pretext of being close to the Wall. They informed Al-Maqdese that they suffered from demolitions several times despite the area is planned in the terms of houses construction.

Al-Maqdese insured, in a press release, that the violation of Palestinians’ rights have became in recent wholesale a systematic policy designed to displace Jerusalemites outside the City limits. For Al-Maqdese, it is a continuation of ethnic cleansing. Therefore, Al-Maqdese Executive Director, Moaz Zat’ari, calls the Islamic and Arab Governments and the international community to interfere with and to stop massacres of Palestinians and their properties in Jerusalem.