House Demolitions since 30 July 1997

Totals:

West Bank: 22 homes demolished
Jerusalem: 10 homes (2 unconfirmed)
Estimated total of displaced persons as a result of demolitions: 125
West Bank: 76
Jerusalem: 49

** All these homes were demolished for having no building permits, permits which are difficult or impossible to obtain. The actual political intent of demolishing Palestinian homes is always to restrict natural growth of Palestinian communities, and often because they lie in the path of a settler by-pass road or for lying near the illegal Jewish settlements of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

3 August

2 Anata, Jerusalem (in West Bank)
1 al Ram, Jerusalem (in West Bank)

4 August

2 al Issawiya, Jerusalem - homes lay in path of E-1 settlement plan 1 Shufat, Jerusalem, 40 people displaced
2 Azzariya, Jerusalem (in West Bank)

5 August

1 al Zaim (unconfirmed)
3 Sair/Bani Naim, Hebron, 24 people displaced - 2 lay in path of settler by-pass road #35. 1 by mistake in Area B

7 August

2 Kattana, Ramallah, 22 people displaced - near settlement of Givat Ze’ev
1 Fassayel, Jericho
1 Biddou, near Ramallah

13 August

5 Shu’fat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, 9 people displaced, near Pisgat Ze’ev settlement 4 in Hussan and Furdeis, Bethlehem 2 (?) Anata (unconfirmed)

14 August

5 Nebi Samuel, Ramallah, 30 people displaced, near new settlement
1 Azzariya, Jerusalem (in West Bank)
1 Bir Naballa, Ramallah
1 Jahalin family removed from Mishor Adumim industrial area

18 August


1 Bani Naim, Hebron
- 1 partial demolition, 200 meters addition, no prior warning, near settler by-pass road #60 Ne'man Shabani, owner

Three months ago another demolition with no prior notice on same property, Umran Shabani

1 Beit Omar, partially completed house and well
Abu Ayyash family, owners 1 Sair
1 Hebron

25 August


2 al Za’ayim village, near Jerusalem (West Bank), in path of proposed E-1 settlement plan
Mohammed Abu Hawa
Sharif Sheweiki
Jerusalem Municipality ordered and executed demolitions

2 Nahalin village, near Bethlehem
Mohammed Shakarna
Hamze Fanoon
Five other homes targeted for demolition, but not demolished on this day as a result of resistance and clashes on the part of area residents.

26 August


3 Ras al Amoud
Yassir Jabari
Tayseer Jabari
Ali Abu Suweiye

2 Qosra village, near Nablus, lie near Magdalim settlement
Amer Mahmoud Jabali
Marmar Mahmoud Jabali
All five houses were unfinished.

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