IOA gives Jerusalemite two months to flatten his own home

OCCUPIED JERUSAELM, (PIC)-- The Jewish-controlled municipality court in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday gave Faraj Ulayan an inhabitant of the Old City of Jerusalem two months to knock down his own home or face imprisonment for 50 days. Ulayan said that he built his home ten years ago and that it shelters ten individuals who would be rendered homeless in the event it was demolished, describing the court ruling as "oppressive" and "illegal". He added that the Israeli occupation authority warned him that he would be imprisoned and would have to pay a fine along with the high cost of the demolition by the municipality bulldozers if he did not comply with the order. MP Mushir Al-Masri, the secretary general of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, said in a statement on Tuesday that the continued Israeli expansionist, settlement drive in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank was the fruit of the defeatist negotiations project. He said that the Palestinian people's sole option is to unite behind resistance to bridle the "Zionist criminal mentality", and asked the former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to return to national options and to "stop begging the Zionist occupation". Masri strongly denounced the Palestinian negotiator's begging policy, which, he said, only served as a cover for the Zionist occupation's crimes against the Palestinian people.