On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian-owned home in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, leaving a family of five homeless.
Media sources said that occupation forces destroyed the 80-square-meter home of the citizen, Nour Totah, in Beit Hanina town, without any prior notice.
Totah told the WAFA News Agency that he built the home five years ago, and has been living there with four other family members, adding that he was surprised when the army arrived with a bulldozer.
Totah stated “I received a notice of unlicensed construction and I began legal procedures to rectify the status of my home, but the occupation forces arrived suddenly in the morning and began demolishing it .”
The Ma’an News Agency quoted Totah who said that he had tried for years to obtain a building permit which the were all rejected by occupation authorities.
In related news, the army demolished a shed in the Ein al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan town, occupied Jerusalem, owned by the citizen, Ishaq Odah, under the pretext of being built without a permit.
Also on Wednesday, occupation forces demolished a Palestinian-owned home, a water well and walls around the property east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Israeli authorities delivered a demolition order on Tuesday and demolished the 250-square-meter home belonging to Jihad Shehada Al-‘Amour where he lived with four other family members, leaving them homeless.
