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in Isawiyah, north of Jerusalem on Tuesday.
 
Farouq Mostafa, a father of four, was forced to he had built on the top of his house after the Israeli Jerusalem central court gave a final ruling in favour of the Israeli municipality's order of demolition.
 
"This apartment cost me more than 650,000 shekels (US$196,000) and I built it for my oldest son, Mohammad, who is 22 now and will soon get married," Farouq Mostafa told ������.

lsraeli authorities force a Palestinian man to self-demolish his house in Isawiya, occupied Jerusalem.

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza)

"," said Mostafa. "I had begun to build, so I continued to build and paid all the fees I was charged with, which amounted to some 100,000 shekels (US$30.000), plus a similar amount for lawyers' services," detailed Mostafa.
 
"In 2020, the Israeli court ordered the demolition of the apartment, so I appealed in the central Israeli court, and the appeal was also rejected," he added.
 
"In May, , the Israeli municipality sent their bulldozers and began to demolish the outside wall, but I brought proof that I had paid the fees to suspend demolition while the case was open in court, and the demolition stopped," noted Mostafa.

Demolitions in Jerusalem area, July 2022: Israeli authorities demolish 10 structures; 18 people, including 10 minors, lose homes. Parts of three additional homes were demolished by their owners and one by the authorities. >

— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem)

"This time I received a final order, and and get it demolished by the Israeli municipality," he added.
 
Palestinians in east Jerusalem are rarely granted building permits, and generally had to pay large amounts of fees for building in the city. against Palestinian property.
 
According to , Israeli authorities demolished 168 Palestinian structures in east Jerusalem in 2021, and have demolished already 80 Palestinian structures in the city in the first eight months of 2022.

Israeli occupation forces raid Shu’afat camp in Jerusalem and demolish three Palestinian-owned houses.

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza)

Of the 80 demolitions documented by OCHA in 2022, 75 happened for lack of building permit. In total, Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property in east Jerusalem since 2021, , including 280 children.
 
"Palestinians are afraid to build in Jerusalem today," noted Farouq Mostafa. ", that it is too costly to live in Jerusalem, that we should leave."