(c) Anne Paq/Activestills.org, Jerusalem, 6 Feb 2008.
une demolition de maison dans la vieille ville de Jerusalem, juste devant une colonie. la famille est installée là depuis des génerations
AAN NEWS AGENCY
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Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian house in Jerusalem
Date: 06 / 02 / 2008 Time: 13:12
Jerusalem – Ma'an – Israeli military forces demolished a Palestinian house in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday on the pretext that the house was built without a permit.
The two-story home on Al-Buraq Street, belonging to the Isma'il Al-Masri family, housed 30 people. Israeli bulldozers began to destroy the house at 10am local time, the family said.
The family said that they had received warning that the house would be demolished. Israeli authorities told the family that if they did not destroy the house by itself, they would have to pay the costs of demolishing it by force.
The family claimed that they had in fact begun to dismantle the house, and were surprised to find Israeli bulldozers toppling their home this morning.
Building permits are often extremely hard for Palestinians to obtain, and are therefore used as a pretext for house demolition.
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