Israel demolishes two Palestinian homes in Jerusalem

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Israeli authorities demolished two Palestinian homes near Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday, ignoring international concern about the practice.

Israel's Jerusalem municipality said the houses were built without permits. Palestinians say such permission is impossible to obtain and accuse Israel of using demolitions to tighten its hold on occupied territory in and around Jerusalem.

"This is part of the Israeli plan to disrupt the demographic balance," Hatem Abdel-Qader, in charge of Jerusalem affairs in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.
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Israeli paramilitary border police troops deployed to secure the razing of the two homes by bulldozers. One of the houses was in Shuafat and the other in Sur Baher, Palestinian communities on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

"International bodies and the United Nations Security Council should intervene to stop Israeli authorities from carrying out these criminal actions," said Adnan al-Husseini, the Palestinian-appointed governor of Jerusalem.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLR381627">Reuters

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1. 275 schedule for the end of the year

They are scheduled to demolish 150 more homes in East Jerusalem -- not counting the 125 they already have scheduled for destruction. The current mayor of East Jerusalem Nir Barkat renewed the former mayors demolish. All together there will be twelve neighborhoods affected by the demolition orders. I just returned from staying in Bethlehem and it is a mess there - truly. There is only one US reporter that I know of that really covers these issues and she isn't affiliated with any network. I wonder why when these are clearly issues the American public needs to know.