Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities forced six Jerusalemite families to demolish their homes in the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Governorate reported in a brief statement that the occupation authorities forced the owners of six homes owned by the Awida family to demolish their homes in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Mu'ayyad Shaaban, stated during a press conference held today at the Commission's headquarters that the occupation authorities issued 903 demolition notices against Palestinian facilities last year under the pretext of lack of permits, with the number of demolition operations in the Jerusalem governorates reaching 190.

He noted that the occupying state has stepped up the pace of implementing its goals related to the Palestinian land to unprecedented levels, within the framework of its efforts to control all the lands between the river and the sea in order to decide Jewish superiority, in the context of eliminating the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, by isolating Jerusalem and emptying it of its authentic Palestinian cultural and civilizational context, and by controlling the strategic joints of the Palestinian geography, through division, looting and tampering, and by controlling the Palestinian way of life and livelihood, through checkpoints and an intensive closure system.