Al-Quds City (Jerusalem), Safar 27, 1434, Jan 9, 2013, SPA - Bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of West Al-Quds city Tuesday demolished a Palestinian home in the East Al-Quds city neighborhood of Silwan under the pretext it was built without permit, according to a local activist. Head of the Committee for the Defense of Silwan, Fakhri Abu Diab, told Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) that municipality workers protected by Israeli soldiers demolished a three-storey house that is still under construction. He warned that the Israeli authorities aim to empty the area of its Palestinian residents in order to seize it for the benefit of settlement expansion. --SPA 12:51 LOCAL TIME 09:51 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1066954