A Palestinian NGO has decried recent Israeli demolitions of homes owned by Palestinians in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem), saying they come as part of an Israeli scheme to expel Palestinians from their land in the holy city. “Israel is guilty of religious and racial discrimination against people from other ethnic and religious backgrounds,” the Islamic-Christian Committee for Supporting Al-Quds and Sanctities said in a statement on March 27.
The group’s secretary general, Hanna Eissa, accused Israeli authorities of demolishing Palestinian homes “in big numbers under illegal, false pretexts” to uproot Palestinians from the occupied holy city. On March 26, Israeli bulldozers demolished a two-storey building owned by a Palestinian man in the Al-Tour neighbourhood east of the Old City of Al-Quds.