Overview
- Bulldozers tore down a four-storey building in Silwan’s Wadi Qaddum containing roughly 12–13 apartments, leaving about 100 Palestinians without homes.
- The Jerusalem Municipality said the action enforced a 2014 court order, adding the site is zoned for leisure and sports uses rather than housing.
- Police cordoned nearby streets and used stun grenades and tear gas during the operation, with a young man and a teenage boy detained.
- Israeli NGOs Ir Amim and Bimkom said there was no prior notice despite a meeting planned the same day to discuss legalising the structure, calling it the largest East Jerusalem demolition of 2025.
- Palestinian officials called the move part of a systematic displacement policy, as it follows the security cabinet’s approval to recognise 19 additional settlements in the West Bank.