As punitive measure, ‘Israel’ blows up house of Palestinian detainee in Jenin
Jenin (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces on Saturday morning blew up a Palestinian detainee house in Silat al-Harithiya town in Jenin, as a punitive measure as he is accused of carrying out a December shooting operation along with five others.
Local sources reported the Israeli occupation forces, in the early hours of this morning, raided the town of Silat al-Harithiya and surrounded its entrances.
The forces then stromed the house of the Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons, Omar Jaradat, and blew it up, turning it into rubble, after planting explosive devices in its walls.
تغطية صحفية: "الاحتلال يقوم بتفجير منزل الأسير عمر جـــرادات في بلدة سيلة الحارثية غرب جنين". pic.twitter.com/nrQde4o5yb
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) May 7, 2022
شاهد| تغطية صحفية: "تصاعد الدخان من منزل الأسير عمر جرادات بالسيلة الحارثية عقب تفجيره من قبل قوات الاحتلال". pic.twitter.com/c8u5Ohrlt9
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) May 7, 2022
In January, the occupation authorities informed four Palestinian families of their decision to demolish their houses in Silat al-Harithiya town, as a punitive measure as their sons are accused of carrying out the alleged shooting attack.
That time, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Silat al-Harithiya and took the measures of the four houses: house of Ahmed Muhammad Yassin Jaradat, the father of brothers Ghaith and Omar who are accused of carrying out the shooting operation that took place on December 16, near the illegal settlement of Homesh, north of Nablus, leaving an Israeli settler killed, and the houses of Muhammad Youssef Jaradat, Ibrahim Musa Tahaineh, Mahmoud Ghaleb Jaradat, and Taher Abu Salah who are all accused of helping the two brotehrs.
The occupation forces arrested the youths after raiding their homes in Jenin and turning it upside-down.
As of that time, the residents of the houses have been evacuating the furniture; the demolition operations will make over 30 people homeless.
1/2 Watch | The family of #Palestinian freedom fighters Omar and Ghaith Jaradat evacuate the furniture of their house in the occupied West Bank town of Silat al-Harithiya after the Israeli military informed them of its intention to demolish the house in an act of retaliation. pic.twitter.com/QWUIDYfSb3
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 20, 2021
In February, the occupation blew up the house of Mahmoud Ghaleb Jaradat.
Watch | Israeli occupation forces blew up last night in a punitive measure the house of Mahmoud Jaradat, a prisoner in Israel occupation jails, in the village of Silat Al-Harithiya in Jenin, according to local sources.#EndIsraeliApartheid pic.twitter.com/pbDXpaTTjx
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 14, 2022
Photos | Daughter of Palestinian prisoner, Mahmoud Jaradat, inspects her family's house which was blown up by the Israeli occupation forces last night in the village of Silat Al-Harithiya in Jenin.#EndIsraeliApartheid#FreeThemAll pic.twitter.com/DOCvgmcskm
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 14, 2022
The Israeli occupation state has used house demolition as a collective punitive measure against the families of Palestinians, who carry out resistance operations.
Hundreds of houses have been demolished within this policy since 1967, leaving thousands of Palestinians homeless despite they had done no wrong and were not suspected of any wrongdoing.
This policy constitutes collective punishment, which is prohibited and violates binding provisions of international law: in the Geneva Convention (“No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited. Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited”).
