On Wednesday, 22 February 2022, at around 7:30 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel arrived with a Border Police escort, a bulldozer and a digger at the neighborhood of ‘Ein al-Jawizeh located in the part of the village of al-Walajah that was annexed to Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries. The forces demolished the home of a family of three, leaving them homeless.
They then continued to the neighborhood of Khilet al-Hawar, also in the part of the village annexed to Jerusalem, where they demolished a two-story, two-unit building still under construction designed to house two families numbering eight people in total, including two minors and another house under construction designed to house newlyweds in the future. The forces also demolished a wall and part of the roof of an unused shack next to the house.
Israel annexed part of the village of al-Walajah to Jerusalem, but does not provide the village services and denies residents building permits, leaving them no choice but to build illegally. Dozens of homes are now under threat of demolition.