Ethnic cleansing: UN: Israel demolished homes of 1,177 Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank in 2014

Since the beginning of 2015, Israeli authorities destroyed 77 structures, displacing 110 Palestinians.

A home demolished in the Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem, October 28, 2014. Photo by Emil Salman

  Since the beginning of 2015, the Civil Administration of the Israel Defense Forces has demolished 77 homes, livestock pens, farm buildings and other structures of Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank, since they were built without building permits. As a result, 110 people, around half of them children, lost their homes at the height of the winter, according to a report compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Between January 19 and January 26, the Civil Administration demolished 41 structures, OCHA said, far higher than the weekly average for 2014 of nine demolitions per week. In the seven-day period, Civil Administration inspectors delivered 45 construction stop orders and two demolition http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.640147#.VM66PWdWquI.facebook.