Seven homes belonging to approximately 70 members of the Abu-Id family were demolished last year at the order of the ILA.
By JONAH MANDELLod Demolition 311(photo credit: Ben Hartman)
Some sixty people pitched a protest tent outside of Lod’s municipality on Wednesday and declared they’d stay there until a solution was found for a local displaced family.Seven homes belonging to approximately 70 members of the Abu-Id family were demolished last December at the order of the Israel Lands Authority (ILA), as the structures were found to be illegal.Since then, no viable solution has been found for the family, explained Miryam Wijler, an activist with the Tarabut- Hithabrut Arab-Jewish movement for social and political change.Foundations were recently laid by the family for one caravan, for which the ILA issued a demolition order a few weeks ago. On Wednesday, officials accompanied by police took apart the concrete surface. In a scuffle that ensued at the site, three family members were lightly wounded and a few family members were arrested, including minors, Wijler said.At the same time, family members and activists settled in the complex of the Lod municipality and pitched a tent. Abed Shechade, who is spending the night there, said that they will stay there until the city offers the family a real solution.“They have nowhere else to go,” he said, adding that they are afraid police will evacuate them over the course of the night.
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