Owner: Israelis destroys; we rebuild

“This is the price we, Palestinians, pay for defending our native soil against Israel’s Judaization schemes,” 58-year-old Khalil Mohamed al-Abbassi, said hours after Israeli bulldozers demolished his home in al-Qods’s town of Silwan.

Al-Abassi spoke out against Israeli intents to deport Palestinian Jerusalemites from their homes so as to wipe out the city’s native character by all means available.

Earlier, at dawn Tuesday, Al-Abassi woke up to the sounds of Israeli troops cordoning off his family home and reducing the entire building to rubble.

“The Israeli bulldozers knocked down a 100-meter-square apartment and two stores of my own,” he said.

Al-Abassi reiterated his insistence on reconstructing the demolished house, saying: “Israelis destroy; we rebuild.”

“Israeli pressure shall never dampen out spirits; Our holy Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque are just worth our blood, homes, and money,” he added.

“History proves that the Israeli occupation has never recognized the rule of law and it will never do,” he stated.

He said the demolition has not been the only one of its kind as Israeli authorities notified the demolition of his family home some 10 years ago.