Anas Samir, 42, is shown in the shop he runs in Al-Eizariya. Last month, he and dozens of other shopkeepers and business owners were notified that demolition orders would soon be enforced, as Israel approved a controversial plan to expand a neighbouring Israeli settlement in the direction of Jerusalem. (Jason Ho/CBC - image credit)

Anas Samir, a 42-year-old father of four, cuts a dejected figure as he sits smoking outside the shop where he sells groceries in the Palestinian town of Al-Eizariya, just outside Jerusalem.

He has spent years watching bits of land Palestinians had hoped might one day be part of an independent state being lopped off in service of Israel's decades-old settlement enterprise.

The latest impacts him personally.

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