From: "Zahi Damuni" <zdamuni-AT-email.msn.com> Subject: Fw: HOUSE DEMOLITION IN JERUSALEM'S BEIT HANINA Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:25:21 -0500 -----Original Message----- From: LAW <law-AT-lawsociety.org> To: lawemailing-AT-alquds.net <lawemailing-AT-alquds.net> Date: Monday, November 30, 1998 1:30 PM Subject: HOUSE DEMOLITION IN JERUSALEM'S BEIT HANINA HOUSE DEMOLITION IN JERUSALEM'S BEIT HANINA 30 November 1998 On 29 November 1998, the house of 65-year-old Sharif Ahmad Muhammad Abdallah and his family was destroyed by the Israeli army in Beit Hanina, in East Jerusalem. The owner of the house had tried to obtain from the Jerusalem Municipality a permit to build but it was denied on the basis that the area of Beit Hanina is a "green area" and therefore restricted to development. Mr Abdallah started building the house on a family-owned plot of land 7 months ago. The area of the house of two floors covered over one dunum. The total costs of the land and the building of the house amounted to 340.000 US dollars. Mr Abdallah, who was living in the house with this wife, his sister-in-law and four children aged between one month and one year, had been informed by his lawyer on 21 November that the Israeli High Court had rejected appeal against the refusal of a building permit. On 25 November, Mr Abdallah was informed by the Jerusalem Municipality of an order to demolish his house. At 7am, on 29 November 1998, Israeli officials attended the house. The family was asked to take their belongings and to leave the house. Five hours later Mr Abdallah's house was completely demolished. No physical harassment was reported but Mr Abdallah's wife was taken to hospital for shock. In East Jerusalem, 96 houses have been demolished since the signing of the Oslo agreement, three of which were destroyed during the last month. House demolition along with settlement building is being used by the Israeli authorities as a means to increase the Jewish majority in East Jerusalem, thus manipulating the composition of the population in order to cement control over the city. LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving human rights through legal advocacy LAW is affiliate to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Fédération Internationale des Ligues de Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) LAW - the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment PO Box 20873 Jerusalem, via Israel Tel: (972) (2) 5812364/5824559 Fax: (972) (2) 5811072 email: law-AT-lawsociety.org web site: http://www.lawsociety.org/ --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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