'They destroyed the future': Palestinian anger at rise in Israeli demolitions in East Jerusalem
Key takeaways
- Some 59 properties have now been destroyed in the al-Bustan area of the Silwan neighbourhood since late 2023.
- They destroyed the future and everything else," says Fayez Awad, 58, who is sitting in the only remaining floor of his property when I reach him.
- They brought us back to zero again, me and my children."
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Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem BBCThe Awad family home in East Jerusalem is one of the properties being demolished There is the loud din of a demolition below Jerusalem's walled Old City, and from a hillside I watch a large Israeli excavator tearing into a Palestinian house.
Some 59 properties have now been destroyed in the al-Bustan area of the Silwan neighbourhood since late 2023. With world attention diverted by the war in Gaza and now in Iran and Lebanon, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of Palestinians being pushed from their homes in Israeli-occupied east of the city.
"There is no future. They destroyed the future and everything else," says Fayez Awad, 58, who is sitting in the only remaining floor of his property when I reach him.