Israeli Committee Against Home DemolitionsContrary to a court order, the Jerusalem Municipality today demolished two rooms of the Dabash family’s home in Sur Baher. This is the second time the home is being demolished. It was rebuilt after the first demolition as part
of the rebuilding project of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions
(ICAHD) and the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights. The
organizations plan to rebuild the house yet again. The Municipality this
afternoon also demolished the home of the Awisat family in Jabel Mukaber.
On 26 August the court issued a demolition order for the Dabash family’s
home. The family’s lawyer, Nakhoum Solan, received informal notice of the
demolition order by fax. The fax stated that the order would go into effect
only after the lawyer was to receive official notice, and that he would be
given fifteen days to appeal the order. After the demolition crew arrived
this morning Solan appealed for a delay. Although the judge ordered a
delay, was their lawyer brought to the police and to the Municipality’s
prosecutor, Dani Liebman, the Municipality official supervising the
demolition refused to acknowledge the delay order and demolished two rooms
in the house before the order arrived. The demolition was temporarily
halted, but the rest of the house except one room was destroyed after an
engineer declared the partially demolished structure unsafe. Solan received
the official demolition order at 12:30 this afternoon, after the demolition
had taken place.