{"id":46441,"date":"2024-10-17T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/palestinians-face-spike-in-israeli-demolitions-in-east-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T05:10:00","slug":"palestinians-face-spike-in-israeli-demolitions-in-east-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=46441","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians face spike in Israeli demolitions in East Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just across the road are the Palestinian villages of Umm Tuba and Sur Baher, where many public facilities are notably inferior to those in Har Homa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In stark contrast to the building work on the other side of the highway, several homes have been forcibly demolished here in recent years in what Amnesty International describes as \u201ca flagrant violation of international law and part of a systematic pattern by the Israeli authorities to forcibly displace Palestinians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a similar picture in the settlement of Gilo, expanding rapidly in what is internationally regarded as occupied East Jerusalem, while, it\u2019s argued, neighbouring Palestinian suburbs are denied the ability to grow at anything like the same rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The international community considers Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. Israel also denies that demolitions are part of deliberate policy of discrimination that has gathered pace under the cover of the distraction of the Gaza war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the Jerusalem Municipality said the accusations were \u201cabsolutely false\u201d and that it had local support for \u201ccomprehensive building and construction plans across nearly all areas of East Jerusalem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plans \u201caim to provide options for neighbourhood expansion, address the widespread issue of illegal construction, and designate areas for the construction of municipal service structures,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it isn\u2019t hard to find examples where Israeli demolition orders against Palestinian homes are being enforced across East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0lwpg9xrxdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just across the road are the Palestinian villages of Umm Tuba and Sur Baher, where many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3442,1558,1349,295,2230,920,3441],"class_list":["post-46441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-demolitions","tag-east","tag-face","tag-israeli","tag-jerusalem","tag-palestinians","tag-spike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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