An-Najah News - According to local sources, Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian-owned carwash workshop in Anata town near Jerusalem during raids by the Israeli forces.
Israeli forces tore-down the carwash claiming it is located in the vicinity of the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev and unlicensed.
Palestinian houses and structures are being demolished on a daily basis as a means to achieve “demographic control” of the occupied territories.
Israel denies planning permits for Palestinians to build on their own land or to extend existing houses to accommodate natural growth, particularly in Jerusalem and Area C.
Area C is about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and it falls under full Israeli military rule.
Israeli occupation forces many times forced the residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.
Israel’s discriminatory policies in East Jerusalem include routine home demolitions, discriminatory allocation of building permits, and the eviction of Palestinians from their homes for the benefit of Israeli settlers are aimed at driving out Palestinians from the city.