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Palestinian self-home-demolitions: 'A new level of depravity' |
2018-12-08 |
[Aljazeera] Facing fines and jail time, East Jerusalem brothers see no other option than to demolish their homes themselves. Wadi Qadoum, occupied East Jerusalem - Murad and Johar Hashimeh spent most of Friday removing all the furniture, clothes and other belongings from a room of their modest home in East Jerusalem's Wadi Qadoum neighbourhood. On Saturday, a bulldozer is set to arrive to demolish the room they've lived in for more than 20 years. In 1998, the Palestinian brothers built an addition to the small home they grew up in to make it large enough for them and their wives and kids. After they built the addition, they split the entire space into two apartments for each of their families. Soon after, they received a notification from the Israeli authorities stating that the additional section they built lacked the required building permit and must be demolished. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#4 Why don't they just get permits? Defiance. Also, I’ve seen complaints thqt the Israeli bureaucrats are slow to process paperwork — though Israelis have been complaining about that problem for two generations that I’ve been aware of. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-08 16:46 |
#3 Why don't they just get permits? Is it an act of defiance? Ignorance? Poverty? |
Posted by: gorb 2018-12-08 12:26 |
#2 Without codes you get people trying to pack six families into a space meant for one, because they can get more for rent that way. |
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-12-08 08:37 |
#1 We have guys like those permit people where I live. The profession seems to attract the little hitlers. |
Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-12-08 06:32 |