JERUSALEM, October 26, 2017 (WAFA) – The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem informed on Wednesday night a Palestinian resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabber that his house is going to be demolished because it was built without a permit, according to WAFA correspondent.

Staff from the municipality handed Mohammad Abu Jamal an order informing him of its intention to demolish his home, which he has been living in with his five-member family for two years.

While the all-Israel municipality headed by a right-wing mayor refuses to give Palestinians building permits in their occupied East Jerusalem neighborhoods compelling them as a result to build without one, it has on Wednesday approved the construction of 176 housing units for Jews only in the illegal settlement of Neve Tsion built on expropriated land from Jabal al-Mukabber.

With this act, the municipality is enforcing a general Israeli demographic policy aimed at creating a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem, which it has illegally annexed following the 1967 war, by building tens of thousands of housing units for Jews while denying Palestinians the right to build homes on their own land and in their neighborhoods where they have lived for centuries prompting them to either build without permit and risk dire consequences or move to areas outside the city.

Thousands of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem are currently slated for demolition under the pretext they were built without permit.

M.K.