JERUSALEM, January 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli bulldozers Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned house in Anata, a town northeast of Jerusalem, under the pretext that it was build without a permit, said the house owner.
Ahmad al-Lhalyeh said Israeli forces raided at dawn his house, located near the Israeli camp of Anatot, and forced his family of 20 members to leave their residence before demolishing it.
Israeli police handed the unemployed al-Lhalyeh a demolition notice on January 18, and gave him a three-day notice to demolish his own house, said the lawyer assigned to al-Lhalyeh’s case by the National Committee against the Apartheid Wall in Ramallah, Hussam Younis.
He said that Israel demolished the house before he had a chance to file an objection to the Israeli Supreme Court, adding that Israeli authorities demolished another house for al-Lhalyeh in 1996, under the pretext of building with no permission.
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