Israel demolishes Palestinian house in southeast Tel Aviv
Israeli forces have razed to the ground a house belonging to a Palestinian family in a city southeast of Tel Aviv.
Dozens of Israeli forces forcibly evacuated al-Naqib family and sealed all entrances to their house before destroying it in the city of Lod on Tuesday.
Hana al-Naqib lived in the house with her four children.
Hundreds of Palestinians convened at the site of the demolition to voice their support for the family.
An Israeli court had issued the demolition order of the house in late 2014, claiming that the residence was not registered in the relevant Israeli ministry.
We have all the required documents that “prove that the land belongs to the family and is licensed for building,” Ma’an news agency quoted Nabil al-Naqib, a member of the family, as saying.
“The family was planning a sit-in protest in front of the house against the demolition order, but a large force of Israeli police and bulldozers arrived and demolished the house,” he added.
Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) earlier this week submitted an open letter signed by as many as 400 rabbis from across the world to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, criticizing his policies toward Palestinians.
The rabbis called on Netanyahu to halt the Israeli policy of destroying Palestinian homes in the occupied territories, saying that the Israeli prime minister’s policies toward Palestinians are in contradiction to “international law.”
The letter was in reaction to Netanyahu’s recent decision to order the demolition of some 400 newly-built Palestinian houses in the occupied West Bank.
The move by the Israeli premier came after the British newspaper Daily Mail alleged in a report that the European Union (EU) had funded the construction of the houses, according to Israeli media.
Tel Aviv claims that the EU should have asked for its permit for the construction.
On February 6, a spokesman for the EU, whose name was not mentioned in the reports, defended its funding for the Palestinian homes.
In addition, Shadi Othman, a communications officer at the Office of the European Union Representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, told the Daily Mail a day earlier that the project “is part of the work done to build the future Palestinian state.”
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