‘Israel’ to demolish house of 2 Palestinian brothers as collective punishment
Jenin (QNN)- Israeli occupation authorities have notified the family of two Palestinian brothers accused of carrying out alleged shooting operation on December 16, that they will demolish their house in Jenin.
Ghaith and Omar Jaradat, brothers aged 20 and 17 years old, are accused of carrying out the alleged shooting attack that took place on December 16, near the illegal settlement of Homesh, north of Nablus, leaving an Israeli settler killed.
The occupation forces arrested them after raiding their home in Silat al-Harithiya town in Jenin and turning it upside-down.
The Shin Bet security service claimed that the suspects belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.
Last month, the Israeli occupation forces also raided the town of Silat al-Harithiya and took the measures of the house of Ahmed Muhammad Yassin Jaradat, the father of brothers Ghaith and Omar.
The forces also measured the houses of another three families, the siblings’ uncle, as they are also accused of helping the two brothers.
The residents of the houses have been evacuating the furniture; the demolition operation 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
The occupation forces also arrested the mother of Ghaith and Omar on December 27 after raiding their house and released her later.
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”).
