{"id":52962,"date":"2015-01-26T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52962"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:11","slug":"un-israel-illegally-demolished-77-palestinian-houses-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/un-israel-illegally-demolished-77-palestinian-houses-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Israel Illegally Demolished 77 Palestinian Houses This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>24 Jan 2015 &#8211; <\/em>A UN statement said that the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) has illegally demolished 77 houses for Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem this week.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, in a statement on Friday [23 Jan 2015] evening, that 77 Palestinian families, half of them children, have been rendered homeless in the past three days.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said some demolished structures were provided by the international community to shelter poor Palestinian families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemolitions that result in forced evictions and displacement run counter to Israel\u2019s obligations under international law and create unnecessary suffering and tension. They must stop immediately,\u201d said the OCHA statement.<\/p>\n<p>House destruction took place mainly in East Jerusalem in addition to the cities of Ramallah, Jericho and al-Khalil. According to OCHA figures Israeli Authority razed 590 units during the last year, displacing 1,177 Palestinians. It is considered a record number compared to the past six years, it added.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the Israeli Authority claims such demolitions are carried out because the structures have been built without the required construction permits, while refusing the issuance of construction permits for Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/falastinews.com\/2015\/01\/24\/un-israel-illegally-demolished-77-palestinian-houses-week\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 falastinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Jan 2015 \u2013 The UN said in a statement on Friday [23 Jan 2015] that 77 Palestinian families, half of them children, have been rendered homeless in the past three days. Some demolished structures were provided by the international community to shelter poor Palestinian families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}