DAYS OF PALESTINE – WEST BANK
Israeli occupation forces, Thursday evening, have notified the families of two Palestinian prisoners and brothers, that they will demolish their house in Jenin, based in the occupied West Bank.
According to Palestinian sources, the planned demolition will render four families, comprising over 30 people, homeless.
Ghaith and Omar Jaradat, brothers aged 20 and 17 years old, are accused of conducting an alleged shooting attack that took place on 16 December, near the illegal settlement of Homesh, north of Nablus, resulting in an Israeli settler being killed.
The occupation forces arrested the brothers, along with their uncle, after raiding their home in Silat Al-Harithiya town in Jenin with dogs and over 100 soldiers.
Local Palestinian youths, who were protesting the raid, were attacked by the Israeli soldiers, who fired live rounds, tear gas and stun grenades at them, injuring a young man, according to local residents.
The Israeli soldiers had also taken measurements of the family home to prepare them for demolition, an act regularly carried out by Israeli occupation forces and described as “collective punishment” by human rights groups.
Israeli forces use home demolitions as a policy against the families of Palestinians. The policy has been condemned by UN experts and human rights groups.
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