Israeli bulldozers today demolished two shops in Sur Baher, a Palestinian neighborhood south of occupied East Jerusalem, without prior notice, according to Mohammad Tarshan, owner of the shops.
He told WAFA that the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem demolished his two 60-square-meter shops, built more than 50 years ago, without informing him of the demolition decision.
The municipality last October demolished a second floor Tarshan had built on top of the shops under the pretext it was built without a permit.
Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem say they are forced to build without permit because the Israeli municipality rarely issues permits to the city’s Palestinian citizens as a way to reduce their number by forcing them to leave it and find accommodation and work elsewhere.
