Home demolition in Jerusalem: “They want our land. We need help to protect it.”
1st April 2015 | Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine
Nureddin
Amro and his brother Sharif Amro and their families were awakened at
5:30 am by over a hundred Israeli soldiers who came to demolish their
home in the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on
Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Both men are blind. The brothers live with
their ill 79-year-old mother, their spouses and children. Nureddin has
three young children, Sharif has four; all are under 14. Israeli
soldiers pointed their guns in through the windows of the house while
the children were still asleep and cut the electricity and phone lines
to the house.
“We were asleep. They
banged on the doors and shouted. Soldiers completely surrounded the
neighborhood. There were dogs and aircraft. It was frightening,” said
Nureddin. “There was no advanced notice. No reason given. They announced
that they came to demolish the house and they started doing it while we
were still inside.”
The Amro family stands in the rubble of their demolished home
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