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Israel steps up Jerusalem home demolitions

(5 Feb 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Jerusalem - 1 February 2023 1. Various of Ratib Matar and his two children Malak and Mira 2. Wide of the ruins of the Matar family home in Jabal Mukaber 3. Various of rubble 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ratib Matar, construction contractor: “They told me I had 5 minutes to get out with my wife. I spoke to her, but she was strongly refusing to go. In the end, they rounded the corner, and I saw my daughter before me, and I didn’t know what was going to happen on my street.” 5. Various of Malak and Mira playing on the rain-soaked family couch in the rubble 6. Various of rubble 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ratib Matar, construction contractor: “We are under a construction siege by the occupation. We try really hard to build but in vain. Many people here have the same situation, over here and there, including my brother, they have the same.” 8. Various of Jerusalem city halll 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Arieh King, a Jerusalem deputy mayor: “Anything that is illegal is a problem. Everywhere in the world, in any subject. To sell drugs in Israel is illegal. To breaking into banks and rob the bank is illegal. It’s to take something that doesn’t belong to you, to take by force, and to use it for yourself, it’s the same in illegal buildings.” 10. Various of King looking at municipal database of permits UPSOUND (English): "(This is the) area of Jabel Mukaber. Every blue area is a plan approved for Arab to build." 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Arieh King, a Jerusalem deputy mayor: “The decision was made to prioritize the demolition orders to bring first to be demolished the ones that are somehow involved with terror. Again, the reason to the demolish is the same reason: it is illegal building.” 12. Various of buildings 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviv Tatarsky, researcher at Ir Amim, an anti-settlement advocacy group: “For example, here, this area, you see where people have built, it’s a residential area. It’s not zoned. And because it is not included in the areas where the municipality is willing to accept Palestinian construction, when they make a plan and submit it to the municipality it will be rejected. They have no way. The planning authorities are very, very political. They are supposed to make professional decisions but they always have the demographics of Jerusalem in mind – and that’s what motivates them.” 14. Various of Jerusalem STORYLINE: Home demolitions in east Jerusalem have been gathering pace, with 39 Palestinian houses, structures and businesses demolished last month. According to the UN, the destruction last month has led to the displacement of more than 50 people, and accounts for more than a quarter of the total number of demolitions in 2022. One of those affected is Ratib Matar, who had attempted to expand his home to accommodate his growing family. Before his granddaughters, now 4 and 5, were born, he hung drywall on an eastern slope overlooking Jerusalem’s ancient landscape. The 50-year-old construction contractor furnished three apartments for his brother, son, divorced daughter and their young kids — 11 people in all, plus a few geese. But Matar was never at ease. At any moment, the Israeli code-enforcement officers could knock on his door and take everything away. Mere hours after Ben-Gvir's comments, the first bulldozers rumbled into Matar's neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber. His granddaughters Malak and Mira jumped up, thinking their father had come home early from work. Then they heard police dogs. A 2017 study by the U.N. office for humanitarian affairs described it as “virtually impossible." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...