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Israel forcing Palestinians in East Jerusalem to self- demolish their homes

In the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, where obtaining building permits from Israeli authorities is nearly impossible, Palestinians living there are forced to demolish their homes that they have inhabited for years, citing them as "unlicensed," with their own hands.

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Difficult Choice Hasan Cafer (53), a resident of the neighborhood in the Old City of East Jerusalem, expressed that he was faced with two difficult choices. He had to choose between demolishing the apartment on the third floor of an old building he had built for his son, which overlooks the Dome of the Rock, with his own hands or paying the demolition costs to Israel. Cafer stated that he had to choose the former option in the face of these unpleasant choices.