Israel yesterday stopped work on the development of a mosque in occupied East Jerusalem’s Issawiya neighbourhood, Safa information company reported.
Armed Israeli police raided the Palestinian neighbourhood and posted an order to halt the development of Al-Taqwa Mosque.
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Palestinian activist Mohammed Abu Hummus instructed Safa that the Israeli occupation ordered that building be stopped beneath the pretext of that the mosque had no constructing allow.
He famous that the Israeli occupation authorities had refused to challenge a constructing licence for the mosque which is urgently wanted within the space.
Issawiya is residence to some 20,000 Palestinians who stay beneath fixed Israeli police monitoring, with Israeli navy autos an on a regular basis actuality within the streets, and police drones flying overhead.
The village suffers from poor infrastructure, and residents are continuously harassed by Israeli occupation authorities, who refuse to challenge them constructing permits to permit for pure enlargement.
Rights teams have lengthy identified that Israel’s discriminatory insurance policies in opposition to Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, together with routine residence demolitions, discriminatory allocation of constructing permits and forceful expulsions of Palestinians from their houses.
Safa reported that Issawiya’s space has declined from 12,500 dunams (12.5 sq. kilometres) in 1967 to solely 2,400 dunams (2.4 sq. kilometres) in 2021 on account of Israel’s insurance policies.
