The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality issued on Tuesday more demolishing orders to Palestinian-home owners in Jerusalem's old city and around it.
Hatim Abdul-Qader, Jerusalem Affairs Advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, told IMEMC that people with the help of the Prime Minister managed to file appeals to the Israeli court and froze the demolishing orders of 29 homes.
"During the past two days we received additional 29 demolishing orders, we manned to temporary freeze the orders by appealing to the Israeli court, however this leads us to believe that international political intervention is needed, certainly this is a clear Israeli attempt to force Palestinians out of the city in a systematic manner" Abdul-Qader told IMEMC.
The Jerusalem municipality says the homes were built without the needed building permits. Since Israel occupied the city of Jerusalem in 1967 it has rarely given Palestinians living in Jerusalem permissions to built homes. Israel increased its campaign of demolishing Palestinian homes in the city since the start of this year.
The municipality handed out demotion orders to 96 Palestinian families during the month of March, while 88 other orders were issued in February.
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