The Israeli forces forced Al-Maqdisi Ali Odeh to demolish his house, in the Bir Ayoub neighborhood in the town of Silwan, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without a permit.

The Israeli authorities force Palestinian citizens, especially in the occupied city of Jerusalem, to self-demolish their homes under the pretext of not having a permit. If anyone refuses this procedure, the Israeli bulldozers demolish the house, imposing heavy costs on the owner.

Since the beginning of this February, the Israeli authorities have demolished three facilities in occupied Jerusalem, one commercial and two residential.

The Israeli forces have issued dozens of demolition decisions in Jerusalem since the beginning of this month, including a decision to demolish the Wadi Hilweh Media Information Center, and the demolition of the house of Jerusalemite Hosni Shweiki in Wadi Yasoul in the town of Silwan.

Silwan is the oldest and closest to the Jerusalem Wall after the Old City, as the town has been and still is a station for the Israeli ambitions since the occupation of occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, and Israel seeks to erase the Palestinian presence there and turn it into a purely Jewish city.

The town faces the threat of settlement projects, perhaps the most recent of which is the cable car project, one of whose stations will be installed near Bab al-Maghariba at the beginning of Wadi Hilweh.

The city receives thousands of settlers and tourists daily, to wander inside and around the tunnels under Al-Aqsa Mosque, and promotes the rebuilding of the alleged temple and the rebuilding of a Jewish city in Silwan.

At the end of 2022, Israel confiscated the most important lands of Silwan at the end of Wadi Hilweh, after it was leaked by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. The area of the land exceeds 5 dunams, and it is 300 meters away from the western Jerusalem wall.