In the early morning hours on January 8, 2013, Israeli dozers demolished a 4-storey under construction building in Ras al amoud to the south of Al Aqsa Mosque. The targeted building was property of Ahmad Mit’ib and was demolished on the lame pretext of unlicensed construction.
Ahmad said: ‘I started the construction 6 months ago, I was planning to find a proper shelter for my 35-member family. We have been living in a rented house and we wanted a bigger house where we can live more comfortably. We loaned money from the bank and used all our saving in order to finish construction. The building was designed to have 8 apartments, each 132 m2 in area. In this rainy and gloomy day, Israeli troops set siege around the building before knocking it down’. We never received any warnings or stop-work orders‘. He concluded.
The dozers did not only destroy the building but also uprooted a number of trees around it and plowed the plot. The family’s estimated losses is said to be around 1,000,000 ILS.
