(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Israeli bulldozers Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned house in the East Jerusalem town of Al Isawiya allegedly for being built without a license from the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem.
According to Palestinian sources, Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters and rubber bullets after clashes erupted between soldiers and local youths.
"A Palestinian woman was suffocated and three school students were arrested by the occupation soldiers," the sources explained.
Spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement in Al Isawiya, Mohammad Abu Alhumous said in a statement that Israeli bulldozers demolished a 180 square meter house in the town built 10 months earlier.
The Jerusalem occupation municipality said it would demolish another 100 houses in the town, which they claimed was built without an official permit.
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