Violation: demolishing a cafeteria and confiscating its contents.
Location: Hizma – north of Jerusalem.
Date: May 28, 2012.
Perpetrators: the Israeli Occupation Army.
Victim: Shawki Rashid.
Details:
At around midnight on May 28, 2012, Israeli troops demolished a cafeteria for fast food and sandwiches in Hizma on the pretext of lacking a construction permit. The cafeteria is the property of Shawqi Rashid (30), married and father of one. He said: ‘I started the cafeteria in 2006 and called it Hala. It is basically a 35-m2-container which I turned into a restaurant. Two years earlier, I received an eviction order for the cafeteria; an employee of the Israeli Municipality in the Occupied City took a picture of himself while handing me the order. However, I did not comply to the order because the contained is placed over a 4-dunum-plot that was bought by my father in 1983. On Monday, May 28, 2012, Israeli troops and two dozers broke into the area and prevented anyone from getting near.
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An Israeli Municipality in the Occupied City officer placed a demolition order on the container and took a picture of it before removing it again. We requested a permission to clear the contents of the container but they did not allow us to. One of the officers detached the gas and electricity supply and a crane lifted the container and loaded it. 2 fridges, a shawerma oven, an oven, and much other equipment were confiscated. The dozers also leveled the lands around the cafeteria, destroying everything on their way. I asked the officer in charge for a receipt for all the confiscated stuff but he refused to even talk to me‘.
