Palestinian family members, including a 70-year-old elderly woman, were attacked at dawn Tuesday by Israeli occupation officers who rolled into Jerusalem’s town of Silwan and reduced two homes of the family’s own to rubble under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Eye-witnesses said Israeli occupation policemen, escorted by army bulldozers, suddenly showed up in Wadi Helwa neighborhood, in Silwan, and broke into Abu Khaled’s family home at 4.30 a.m. moments before they aggressively attacked the family members, four among whom, including a 70-year-old elderly woman, were left wounded.
A PIC news reporter identified the injured family members as 22-year-old Hashem Abu Khaled, Nur al-Deen Abu Khaled, 22, Ezzedine Abu Khaled, 24, and Fatma Abu Khaled, 70.
The Israeli cops who cordoned off the area from all sides also pepper sprayed the family shortly before they started to knock down the two buildings via a bulldozer.
The house owner Nidhal Abu Khaled said the Israeli police locked up all family members inside the building and initiated the demolition procedure under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
He added that the targeted buildings, under construction since last November, cover 70 square meters each.