This morning, 17 Dec. 2019, at around 8:00 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality
personnel came with Border Police officers and two bulldozers to the
neighborhood of al-‘Esawiyah in East Jerusalem. The force demolished an
apartment that was awaiting habitation on the second floor of a
two-story building. The first floor, which consists of two apartments,
is home to two families – one with four members, two of them children,
and the other with three members, one of them a child. During the
demolition, the ceiling of the first floor was damaged and the floor may
no longer be livable.
The second floor was meant to be inhabited by one of the families, which
lives in crowded conditions on the first floor, and was made accessible
for the father, who uses a wheelchair. The family’s home has been
demolished before.