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Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 - 11:34 Makkah mean time-8-1-1437
Hebron, (IINA) - Israeli forces destroyed on Tuesday the house of Maher Hashlamoun, a Palestinian who is currently in Israeli jail for allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack last year. Moreover, the Israeli forces stormed an apartment building in Al-Zaytoun district in the city of Hebron and raided the apartment of Hashlamoun's family, WAFA reported.
The forces locked the family in one of the apartments and threatened to shoot them if they attempted to leave or open the windows, they then proceeded to destroy Hashlamoun's apartment.
Israel accuses Hashlamoun of carrying out a stabbing attack near Etzion settlement in the West Bank on 10 November 2014. The attack reportedly left one settler killed and two others injured. Israeli authorities sentenced him to serve two life sentences in jail, and he was also ordered to pay a fine of 3 million shekels (about $777,000).
Meanwhile in Nablus, Israeli forces handed the family of Raghib Elewi, a Palestinian whom Israel accuses of being involved in the shooting of an Israeli settler couple earlier this month, a notice ordering them to leave the house within 48 hours in order to demolish it. The forces also raided a supermarket that belongs to Elewi’s family and seized a computer and surveillance cameras, besides detaining Elewi’s brother, Ramez.
Forces also stormed, plundered and took photos of Ammar Al-Qawasmi's house in an apparent prelude to demolishing it. Al-Qawasmi is a teenager who was shot dead by an Israeli Jewish settler in Ash-Shuhada Street in Hebron’s Old City on Saturday. The settler claims that Al-Qawasmi attempted to stab him, although he was not injured.
B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, says: “The people who bear the brunt of the (punitive) demolitions are relatives – including women, the elderly, and children – whom Israel does not suspect of involvement in any offense”.
“In the vast majority of cases, the person whose actions prompted the demolition was not even living in the house at the time of the demolition”, adds the group. “The official objective of the house demolition policy is deterrence … yet the deterrent effect of house demolitions has never been proven”.
It stressed that “since this constitutes deliberate harm to innocents, it is clear that even if house demolition had the desired deterrent effect, it would, nevertheless, remain unlawful”.
Amnesty International argued that the Israeli authorities’ claim regarding such demolitions is entirely irrelevant in the eyes of International humanitarian law, which places clear limits on the actions that an occupying power may take in the name of security, and the absolute prohibition on collective punishment is one of the most important of these rules.
AG/IINA
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