114 Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians Inspection Committees In East Jerusalem there are two Israeli bodies of authority with the ability to issue demolition orders: the Jerusalem Municipality (local) and the Ministry of Interior (regional). The overlapping planning units operate simultaneously with a planning committee and a corresponding inspection squad.408 Outside of Jerusalem the authority of the Municipality ceases.409 Inspectors decide on the ‘administration’ of buildings and whether to mark an ‘illegal’ house for demolition. Administrative demolitions, in the bureaucratic sense of the word, are subject to two sub-categories of demolition orders: administrative and judicial procedures. The choice between these procedures largely determines whether a house will be demolished within days or subject to years of judicial proceedings that are usually resolved with a plea-bargained fine. Every year, the inspectors mark hundreds of houses in East Jerusalem as illegal.410 Administrative Demolitions The majority of Palestinian home demolitions in East Jerusalem are administrative. Administrative demolitions are applied to new structures: either a building that is in progress or a structure that has not been lived in for 60 days. The demolition targets the building itself, not the building owner and is, therefore, not penal. Because the method of demolition does not require a court hearing, it can be implemented very quickly. A demolition is enabled 24 hours after delivering a notification leaving owners with extremely short notice to file a legal challenge or appeal in the Jerusalem Municipal Court.411 Administrative demolitions are applied using Article 238 of the Planning and Building Law that is composed of the following relevant sub-articles (c), (f), (g), and (h):412 408 Irus Braverman, ‘Powers of Illegality: House Demolitions and Resistance in East Jerusalem’, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper 32, no. 05 (2009): 354. 409 Al Maqdese for Society Development, The Socio-economic and Demographic Effects of House Demolitions in Jerusalem (Jerusalem, March 2011), 10; available from http://www.al-maqdese.org/ attachment/150/socio_eonomic.pdf?g_download=1; accessed 22 April 2013. 410 Braverman, ‘Powers of Illegality’, 353. 411 Article 250 of the Planning and Building Law enables an appeal. See: Society of St. Yves, ‘The Legal Framework - Jerusalem’, Society of St. Yves, Catholic Center for Human Rights, n.d.; available from http://www.saintyves.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108%3Ademoliti on-legal&catid=44%3Ahouse-demolitions&Itemid=59&lang=en; accessed 23 April 2013. 412 See a ‘Sample Administrative Demolition Order’ from 20 December 2006 translated by Human Rights Watch here: Human Rights Watch, ‘Sample Administrative Demolition Order’, December 2006; available from http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/iopt0308/14.htm; accessed 23 April 2013.