Army levels a Palestinian house in Jerusalem

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers leveled a Palestinian house that belongs to two brothers of Al Ja'bary family, in Beit Hanina neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Soldiers surrounded the area, broke into the house and leveled it after forcing the family out without allowing them to evacuate their furniture and belongings.

Army claims that the house was constructed without obtaining a legal construction permit.

Several institutions in Jerusalem denounced the demolishing of the house and considered it part of the Israeli policy and the policy of the Jerusalem municipality to empty the city from its Palestinian residents.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/18556/1/
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This is what occupation looks like.
They were tractored out by the Cats, as Muley said to me back in Oklahoma

You have to ask your new colonial master for permission to build on his land because it's not your land anymore. :sarcasm:

State of Isreal created after World War 2. Land taken from Palestinian. Now look what happen to them.
Oh yeah Isreal has grown to be a real little PRICK>

In the mid 70’s the Israelis started to confiscate lands that belonged to the people of Beit Hanina, including much of my family’s lands, the very process of stealing the Palestinian is very much entrenched and institutionalized in Israel. First, the Israelis would come in and survey the lands that they have their eyes on. They then would prevent the land owners from building on or utilizing these lands for any purpose, be it agricultural or commercial. During this time, the land is referred to as being “green” and is photographed and surveyed many times during the next three years. After the three year period, the Israeli government labels these very same lands as being “derelict and or abandoned” thus paving the way for them to be confiscated using outdated Ottoman era laws that say if a piece of land is NOT planted, built on, or utilized by its owners, it becomes state property. According to B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights watchdog group, in their published reports and accompanying booklet, whereby they document the methods of how the Israeli government goes about stealing the Palestinian lands, (http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/Land_Grab_2002.asp#anchor-Taking_Control ) they state the following: Taking Control of the Land

Israel has used a complex legal and bureaucratic mechanism to take control of more than fifty percent of the land in the West Bank. This land was used mainly to establish settlements and create reserves of land for the future expansion of the settlements.

The principal tool used to take control of land is to declare it "state land.” This process began in 1979, and is based on a manipulative implementation of the Ottoman Lands Law of 1858, which applied in the area at the time of occupation. Other methods employed by Israel to take control of land include seizure for military needs, declaration of land as "abandoned assets,” and the expropriation of land for public needs. Each of these is based on a different legal foundation. In addition, Israel has assisted private citizens purchasing land on the "free market.”

The process employed in taking control of land breaches the basic principles of due procedure and natural justice. In many cases, Palestinian residents were unaware that their land was registered in the name of the state, and by the time they discovered this fact, it was too late to appeal. The burden of proof always rests with the Palestinian claiming ownership of the land. Even if he meets this burden, the land may still be registered in the name of the state on the grounds that it was transferred to the settlement "in good faith.”

Despite the diverse methods used to take control of land, all the parties involved - the Israeli government, the settlers and the Palestinians - have always perceived these methods as part of a mechanism intended to serve a single purpose: the establishment of civilian settlements in the territories. Accordingly, the precise method used to transfer the control of land from Palestinians to Israel is of secondary importance. Moreover, since this purpose is prohibited under international law, the methods used to secure it are also unlawful.

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/May/31o/Beit%20Hanina%20Another%20new%20Ghetto%20in%20Palestine%20By%20Mike%20Odetalla.htm

http://www.hanini.org/ (warning: the freefloating pics and font that follows the mouse around make this a candidate for a really bad webpage design award)