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<div id="divNewsDatetime">Press TV | Tue Jan 4, 2011 4:40PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">The  demolition of Palestinian homes in East al-Quds is an Israeli plot to  drive the Palestinian residents out of the city, an Israeli rights group  said.</div>
<div id="divLead">Israel has increased the demolition of  Palestinian homes in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as part of a &#8220;broad  policy&#8221; to drive Palestinians out of the city, says a new report.</div>
<p>The final months of 2010 saw a sharp rise in the number of Israeli  demolitions of Palestinian homes in East al-Quds, Israeli civil rights  group Ir Amim (City of Peoples) said in a statement on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The civil rights group said the rise in demolitions was calculated to drive Palestinians out of the city, AFP reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is important to emphasize that the issue of home demolitions in  Jerusalem is not a neutral enforcement of the law, but rather part of a  broad policy that seeks to weaken Palestinian civil society in east  Jerusalem and drive them out, &#8220;said the statement.</p>
<p>It documented 74 demolitions in east al-Quds in 2010, with the monthly figure peaking in December with 17 incidents.</p>
<p>Israeli forces have demolished at least two homes, in the Sheikh  Jarrah and Beit Hanina neighborhoods of the city since the New Year</p>
<p>This is a continuation of the sharp rise in home demolitions in East  al-Quds that has been the trend since mid-2010, and more significantly  in the last two months of 2010, the group said.</p>
<p>The demolition of Palestinian homes and other structures in East al-Quds and the occupied West Bank happens on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Israel claims the demolitions are only ordered for structures that were built without planning permission.</p>
<p>The Palestinians however say it is virtually impossible to get a  building permit, particularly for housing in the city, and Ir Amim said  the demolitions were part of a political policy.</p>
<p>Israel occupied East al-Quds during a 1967 aggression and later  annexed it in a move not recognized by the international community.</p>
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