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NGO Ir Amim has reported a 44 per cent spike in home demolitions in East Jerusalem compared to the same time in the previous year. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a recent report released this week, the Israeli advocacy group said 104 housing units were demolished in 2019 compared with 72 units in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aviv Tatarsky, the Ir Amim researcher responsible for the report stated that even though Palestinians make up about one-third of Jerusalem‘s population, only 7 per cent of housing units driven by city planners last year were for Palestinian neighbourhoods. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n "The situation in East Jerusalem has been very bad last year," Tartarsky described.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Israel’s maintains the houses demolished were built illegally and the destruction was court authorised. But Palestinians say they face a severe housing crisis fuelled by Israel‘s reluctance to issue building permits.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n "All the money that I‘ve collected during the past years, I‘ve spent it to build this house and in moments they destroyed it under the pretext that I didn‘t have a permit," said Mohammed al-Barzyan, a Palestinian whose house was demolished last year, according to Al Jazeera.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Israel annexed East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights in the 1967 ‘Six-Day-War’, a move unrecognised under international law. Both Israel and Palestine consider an undivided Jerusalem as part of their future capital. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Occupied East Jerusalem has a Palestinian population of at least 370,000 and some 209,000 Israeli Jewish settlers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to human rights organisation B’Tselem, “Israeli policy in East Jerusalem is geared toward pressuring Palestinians to leave, thereby shaping a geographical and demographic reality that would thwart any future attempt to challenge Israeli sovereignty there.” <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Palestinians who do leave East Jerusalem, due to this policy or for other reasons, risk losing their permanent residency and the attendant social benefits.” <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since 1967, Israel has revoked the permanent residency of some 14,500 Palestinians from East Jerusalem under such circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NGO Ir Amim has reported a 44 per cent spike in home demolitions in East Jerusalem compared to the same time in the previous year. In a recent report released… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palestinemonitor.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}