Dozens of settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation forces
Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – On Wednesday, dozens of Israeli settlers stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
Wafa News Agency reported that groups of settlers stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate and carried out provocative tours in its courtyards, amid heavy security from the occupation forces.
Israeli settlers carry out daily provocative incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation forces, in an attempt to impose a fait accompli regarding the Judaization of the Mosque.
Occupation forces continue to demolish Palestinian-owned homes in occupied Al-Quds
On the other hand, the “Israeli occupation municipality” of West Al-Quds on Wednesday continued to demolish Palestinian-owned homes in the occupied part of the holy city with the demolition of a house in Silwan neighborhood, on the southern limits of al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of construction without a permit, Wafa News Agency reported.
The Israeli forces cordoned off the area where the house owned by Sultan Halisi is located in the Wadi Hilweh area of Silwan before the municipality staff proceeded to demolish the house.
Halisi told WAFA that he has been living in the 60-square-meter house with his wife and four children, the oldest of whom is 13 years old and the youngest six, since 2014.
Ever since, he explained, the Israeli municipality has been harassing him about building his house without a permit and fined him a payment of 35,000 Israeli shekels ($10,000).
He added that during the past year, the occupation authorities informed him to self-demolish the house but he refused to do it.
As a result, the occupation municipality began today to demolish the house and is going to charge the owner the costs of the demolition, which is expected to be overblown.
The Israeli occupation municipality staff yesterday demolished sections of two Palestinian-owned buildings and completed the demolition of a third in occupied East Al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhoods, all under the pretext of construction without a permit, which Palestinians insist is almost impossible to get due to the municipality’s discriminatory policy in Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers.