Ziad Ameira set a thick stack of papers on a plastic table. These official notifications and threats forced the 49-year-old convenience store-owner to destroy his own house in the Sur Baher area of East Jerusalem on 18 August.
"My family and I lived in that home for 13 years," he said. "I have no idea where to go from here."
Ameira had inherited the land where the house was built from his late father. Only twenty days after Ameira and his family moved into the home in 2000, the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality delivered a demolition order. In May this year, "they gave me the choice: I demolish my own house or they do it for me," he told The Electronic Intifada. "They gave me two and a half months." .... http://www.davidicke.com
