Said a prominent Israeli NGO on Monday that Israel forced Palestinians out of East Jerusalem as part of a deliberate policy may constitute a war crime, a charge rejected the mayor of Jerusalem.
And provided the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions results of the United Nations and called for the achievement, saying that Israel targeted Palestinian homes demolished and the abolition of restrictions on residence and living conditions.
Said Michael Sfard - a lawyer who helped bring the 73-page report on the case - "We are witnessing a process of ethnic displacement. Israel and clearly violate the international law seriously ... and motivated population."
Stephen Miller, and refused - a spokesman for the mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat - report. He said in a statement that based on "misleading facts and blatant lies and political fabrication on Jerusalem so I'm sure that the UN will enjoy it."
Israel captured East Jerusalem including the Old City in 1967. And included later in the region and the surrounding villages of the West Bank to Jerusalem municipality announced that it is eternal and undivided capital of Israel.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem as capital of a future state did not recognize the annexation of world leaders.
There are around 300 thousand Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, representing about 35 percent of the total population of the city, but the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions said that since Israel's control of the Arab majority areas, prevented the development of a systematic manner.
One third of the land in East Jerusalem to create Jewish neighborhoods while only nine percent of the remaining land available for housing law. Was to build on all of these territories, which makes expansion impossible.
The organization said that Israel's virtually impossible for Palestinians to obtain permits to build homes for families that are growing in number.
Said Emily Schaefer, who authored the report, "they have no other option but to leave East Jerusalem, or build illegally or to live in appalling conditions and overcrowded."
The leaves lose their residency rights if absent for seven years or more and can not return. She said the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions that about 14 thousand Palestinians lost their residence between 1967 and 2010 and half that number after 2006.
The house owner gives the Israeli health care and benefits of the National Insurance.As for those who build houses illegally Faaeshun in fear of the destruction of their property and face heavy fines.
And Israel demolished more than two thousand homes in East Jerusalem since 1967, including 771 between 2000 and 2011. It is expected 1500 destruction of the other is one thousandth of implementation.
Sfard said "Palestinians deported from East Jerusalem is actually not using guns or trucks, but not allowing them to live a decent life and natural."
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions that as long as the annexation of East Jerusalem has not received international recognition should be considered as the Palestinians who live there is a people under occupation. Accordingly, Israel has no right to strip them of residence or the demolition of their homes.
Sfard said "there is a suspicion that a war crime, and this is why we should investigate."
A statement from the mayor's office in East Jerusalem that Israel has suffered from lack of investment in the past but that situation has now changed.
He said that Barakat "Invest in size of the resources and efforts are unprecedented to improve the quality of life of the Muslim population in Jerusalem after decades of neglect by previous administrations."
He said Miller, a spokesman for the mayor said Barakat, "committed to improving the quality of life of the Muslim population in Jerusalem and will continue to do so."
Rejected the vast majority of Palestinians in East Jerusalem offers to obtain Israeli citizenship in the wake of the 1967 war, fearing that it weakens the Palestinian claims to sovereignty over the region, but mostly with Israeli residence permit.
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