Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  
22 June 1998 
BADIL Resource Center 

Today, on 22 June 1998 at 8:30 am, approximately 100 Israeli border police accompanied by bulldozers demolished the home of Mustafa Khalil Al-Tin in the village of al-Walajeh located on the southwestern borders of Jerusalem. The house of the Al-Tin family, composed of the parents, their seven children and the owners mother, was turned into rubble within only a few hours. 

Mustafa Al-Tin had built the house in 1993. He had not applied for a building permit at the Jerusalem municipality, because he considered the land to be part of the West Bank (and not located within the Jerusalem municipal boundaries), especially since he himself is holding a West Bank identity card. However, soon after construction was completed, Mr. Al-Tin received notice from the Jerusalem municipality informing him that his home was built "illegally". The case was petitioned in the Israeli High Court in 1996, but the Court approved the municipality’s demolition order. 

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For more information about home demolitions contact: BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights, tel/fax 02-2747346, email: [email protected].