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PALESTINIANS WATCH ON AS ISRAELI DIGGERS TEAR DOWN THEIR HOMES
IN JERUSALEM. Shame on you from Cornwall.
EYEWITNESS
'No one is here to help us': Palestinians watch on as Israeli diggers tear down their homes in East Jerusalem
It comes as Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that the security cabinet had approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank.
By Yousra Elbagir, Sky correspondent, in Jerusalem
Tuesday 23 December 2025 04:21, UK
Palestinian neighbourhoods facing demolition and expulsion
A balcony of onlookers stare as three diggers gnaw at the four-storey building that was a fixture of their daily view.
The roads of Silwan's Wadi Qaddom neighbourhood are blocked off by Israeli police as residents watch the demolition in the valley from every vantage point. The block of flats was home to around 100 of their neighbours - many of them are now homeless.
An elderly woman sits at the bus stop near the police checkpoint closest to the demolition site. As she walks back down the hill, she looks back at the destruction. Her cheeks are red with anger when she hails that God is their only protection.
"Where are the Arab countries? No one is here to help us," she exclaims.
Of the 230 buildings demolished in East Jerusalem's Palestinian neighbourhoods in 2025, the block of roughly 13 flats is considered to be the largest and took 12 hours to completely demolish.
Image:The demolition of a building in Silwan's Wadi Qaddom neighbourhood
The building was without a permit, like many in Silwan, and stood on land that was not licensed for residential use. The residents were challenging long-standing demolition orders and applying for licensing when diggers arrived at dawn.
The Jerusalem Municipality said the demolition of the building in Silwan was based on a 2014 court order, and that residents were granted extensions for the execution of the order and were offered various options in order to find a solution, but they declined to do so.
But an architect and urban planner from the Israeli NGO Bimkom (Planners for Planning Rights) - which is supporting the families in their bid to license the land of the building - says their time to act was cut short.
