Jerusalemite researcher Jamal Amro confirmed that the Israeli occupation is practicing a new Nakba in the occupied city of Jerusalem through the escalating policy of demolition and displacement.

Amr said in a press statement: “The demolitions carried out by the Israeli occupation in the occupied towns of Jerusalem do not weaken the resolve of the people of Jerusalem,” adding that “there are stories of pain behind the demolitions that must be focused on.”

He stressed that the criminal practices of the occupation against the people of Jerusalem will not deter them, and they will remain steadfast in their land, warning of a new catastrophe committed by the Zionist occupation in Jerusalem, represented by the policy of ethnic cleansing against the people of Jerusalem.

Last year, the Israeli occupation forces carried out (306) demolition and bulldozing operations in occupied Jerusalem, and delivered more than 220 demolition decisions and notices.

Six neighborhoods in Silwan are threatened with the demolition of their homes entirely, under the pretext of building without a permit, or with their evacuation and expulsion of their residents in favor of settlement associations.

Over the years, the occupation municipality crews have delivered 6,817 judicial and administrative demolition orders for homes in the town’s neighborhoods, in addition to eviction orders for 53 residential buildings in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood for the benefit of the settlers.

The town of Silwan is the southern protectorate of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and its sanctuary, where the occupation is trying to uproot its residents by robbing or demolishing homes, seizing lands, and targeting its cemeteries, as it is currently trying to destroy and bulldoze the Bab al-Rahma Cemetery.

The entire Al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan is threatened with eviction and demolition, in order to build a park on the ruins of the houses, after all the master plans submitted to license the entire neighborhood were rejected.

The threat of eviction also threatens about 300 Palestinian homes in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town of Silwan or in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in addition to the occupation government’s facilitation of land registration for settlers in the western section of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, claiming that they owned land in the area before 1948.