Netanyahu delivers on threats of collective punishment
The destroyed home belonging to the family of Ashraf Naalwa in Shweika, near Tulkarm, on 17 December.
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- 18 December 2018
Israel has delivered on threats of potential war crimes made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following shootings of settlers and soldiers by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Occupation forces destroyed homes belonging to the families of two Palestinians alleged to have attacked Israelis, and delivered demolition notices to a third.
Since late 2015 Israel has accelerated the demolitions of the family residences of Palestinians alleged to have attacked Israelis, a form of collective punishment Israel never applies to Jewish perpetrators.
Such collective punishment measures violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and other international laws.
On Monday, Israeli bulldozers destroyed a home belonging to the family of Ashraf Naalwa in Shweika village near the West Bank city of Tulkarm:
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Naalwa, 23, was killed by Israeli forces last week, bringing an end to a two-month manhunt that followed the shooting deaths of two Israelis in a West Bank settlement industrial plant.
Palestinians had gathered around the home late Sunday in an attempt to prevent its demolition.
Six Palestinians were injured during confrontations with soldiers during the pre-dawn raid.
Refugee camp home blown up
Two days earlier, soldiers detonated a home belonging to the Abu Humaid family in al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, whose security forces cooperate with Israel.
Islam Abu Humaid, currently held by Israel, is accused of dropping a marble slab from a rooftop during a raid, fatally injuring a soldier, earlier this year.
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers raided Ramallah late Friday ahead of the demolition. Activists and family members who had tried to prevent the demolition were forcibly removed from the home.
Occupation soldiers evacuated residents of neighboring homes to a nearby sports field, and the Palestine Red Crescent Society transferred displaced women and children to its offices nearby.
