Pictures & Video| ‘Israel’ forces Palestinian family to self-demolish home in Jerusalem

Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Israeli occupation authorities on Saturday forced a Palestinian family to self-demolish its own home in Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
At the order of the Israeli occupation municipality, the family of Matar self-demolished its home in Jabal al-Mukabbir to avoid paying a fine in exorbitant demolition costs to the Israeli municipality (the staff and the police) if it carries out the demolition.
Watch | The Matar family in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan embarked today on demolishing its own home at the order of the Israeli municipality.#SaveSilwan pic.twitter.com/jrYCtBiEMJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 14, 2021
The family consists of 7 members, including the father, the mother, and their five children.
The family were seen emptying the contents of their homes in preparation for the demolition.
Using the pretext of illegal building, ‘Israel’ demolishes houses on a regular basis to restrict Palestinian expansion in occupied Jerusalem.
At the same time, the municipality and the occupation government built tens of thousands of housing units in illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem for Jews with a goal to offset the demographic balance in favour of the Israeli settlers in the occupied city.
‘Israel’ has been moving its citizens into the occupied Jerusalem neighborhoods since the 1980s. This has resulted in numerous human rights violations, including the forced displacement of Palestinian residents.
Hundreds of Palestinian families are being threatened with forced displacement from their homes and home demolitions by illegal settler groups, fully supported by the Israeli government.
There are nearly 700,000 Israeli settlers living in 256 illegal settlements and outposts scattered across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.