Massive crowds protest outside Palestinian family house under Israel’s threat of demolition
Jenin (QNN)- Huge crowds of Palestinian protesters gathered on Wednesday night outside the Jaradat family house in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in an attempt to prevent an imminent Israeli retaliatory demolition of the house.
Last night, hundreds of Palestinians were seen marching to the house of the Jaradat family in the town of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin as the house is under Israel’s threat of demolition.
WATCH: Massive crowds gather outside the Jaradat family house in the town of Silat al-Harithiya, north of the West Bank, in an attempt to block a retaliatory Israeli demolition of the house later this night. pic.twitter.com/HxSAKCPeoT
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 9, 2022
Happening now… Hundreds of Palestinians arrive in the town of Silat al-Harithiya in the northern West Bank in an attempt to prevent Israel's imminent demolition of the house of freedom fighters Omar and Ghaith Jaradat later this night. pic.twitter.com/IWgEqOB0ST
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 9, 2022
In January, the Israeli occupation authorities notified the family of Jaradat that they will demolish their house as a collective punishment as their two sons, Ghaith and Omar Jaradat, brothers aged 20 and 17 years old, are accused of carrying out an alleged shooting operation 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 December, 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”).
