Imad Asmaa al-Ghouj is only four years old and is already a criminal: He lives in a house that was built without a permit. The apartment in the 10-unit building where he was born and still lives has a demolition order against it. The address: the Khalat al-Ayn section of Jerusalem’s A-Tur neighborhood.
“He’s afraid to go to sleep at night in case they demolish the building when we’re inside, and he comes home from preschool with the food I made for him because he can’t eat due to all the stress,” his mother, Asmaa, said early this month.
“My husband’s young brother, who is 12, and who lives here with his parents and sisters, is afraid he’ll come back from school and find the house demolished. And when people ask my little son Yanal where we’ll go if they demolish it, he says to a tent outside, because we don’t have anywhere else to go.”
The building where the al-Ghouj family lives was built about 10 years ago. There are several dozen more like it in Khalat al-Ayn, and they’re home to about 4,000 people. They
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Amira Hass | Dec 12, 2021