From Zuhdi:
""This is a picture that I saw on facebook, it shows the aftermath of the
demolition of a house, where people are thrown on the street within a very short
notice. This happens a lot as Palestinians living in Jerusalem are always
targeted with tactics and conspiracies that make it almost impossible to live
within Jerusalem, and eventually decide to move to the West Bank side of the
wall a mile away, enabling the Israeli government to take their residency IDs
because they are not citizens of Israel, they are simply residents in the eyes
of Israeli law.
When the IDs are taken away, these people would no longer be able to go to
Jerusalem because they won't be able to pass through the checkpoint.
Palestinians in Jerusalem villages directly on the border with the checkpoints
and the wall own hundreds of acres, but they are not allowed to build on them.
In very rare cases the government isn't able to ban building on a piece of land,
so rare that the price of an acre is more than $4,000,000 compared to another
land half a mile away on the other side of the wall that costs $50,000. To build
on these lands in Jerusalem a building permit is required, the cost of the
permit for the first three stories is $200,000 after the third the cost would be
100,000 for each floor. There is also a waiting period of two years before one
actually obtains the permit.
The median salary for Palestinians living in Jerusalem by my estimation is
almost NIS 69000 ($19000)"
