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Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise

Edit CounterPunch 22 Apr 2016
There is little ambiguity about the morality of this form of ethnic cleansing, and even most Israeli legal scholars agree that it is in contravention of international law ...   ... A homeowner in Idhna, a village near Hebron, told me when I visited in 2014 she was informed that her home was demolished because it lay too close to the Apartheid Wall, the separation barrier Israel has been building since 2002. Her neighbor had it worse ... ....

1000s attend funeral of Palestinian youth

Edit Press TV 26 Apr 2015
The funeral procession for 20-year-old Mahmoud Abu Jheisha was held on Sunday at the Amari Mosque in his hometown of Idhna, west of al-Khalil, where relatives and friends paid their final tributes, before his burial at the local cemetery, Ma'an News Agency reported ... MFB/KA/SS. ....

Punitive Israeli House Demolitions

Edit The People's Voice 04 Dec 2014
Israeli occupation ruthlessly oppresses millions of Palestinians. For praying to the wrong God. For wanting rights everyone deserves. Including living free on their own land in their own country. Home demolitions constitute collective punishment. Against Palestinians. A flagrant Fourth Geneva violation. Since June 1967, Israel demolished over 48,000 Palestinian houses and other structures ... Groves ... An Idhna family apartment was demolished ... ....

13 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces in West Bank since Operation Protective Edge began: Excessive use of live fire suspected (B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)

Edit noodls 31 Jul 2014
(Source. B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories). Wounded young man being evacuated from demonstration by Qalandiya Checkpoint, 24 July 2014.  Photo by Oren Ziv, Activestills ... Another Palestinian was shot and killed by a settler. ... On 29 July 2014, 21-year-old 'Alaa Zghaiar, of Idhna, died of wounds he sustained from live ammunition that struck him in the abdomen on 20 July 2014....

Hebron: a hostage city

Edit Axis of Logic 03 Jul 2014
Since June 12, when three Israeli teenage settlers went missing north of Hebron, Israeli authorities have placed and kept the Hebron district under closure ... (Photo/Hebron Defense Committee) ... Two homes owned by the alleged kidnappers, Marwan al-Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Eisha, in Halhul, and the house of a Palestinian suspected of killing an Israeli police officer, Ziad Awwad in the village of Idhna, were demolished on Monday and Tuesday ... ....

Israel demolishes home of Palestinian charged with killing Israeli

Edit Yahoo Daily News 02 Jul 2014
Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, an army spokesman said the demolition was intended to serve as a deterrent ... On Monday, Israel's high court rejected an appeal by an Israeli rights group to the army decision to demolish the home in the village of Idhna, close to the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank....

Israel demolishes house of terrorist as deterrence

Edit The Siasat Daily 02 Jul 2014
Jerusalem, July 02.. Israel Wednesday destroyed the house of the family of Ziad Awad, who was charged by a military court with committing the murder of an off-duty Israeli policeman, the Israeli army said ... On Monday, the Israeli Supreme Court denied a petition by Awad's family and human rights organizations against the demolition of their house in the village of Idhna, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank ... (IANS). Recommend Twitter ... ....

Palestinians furious as Israel resumes punitive demolitions

Edit Daily Press 01 Jul 2014
HEBRON (Reuters) - Israel has revived a long-lapsed policy of destroying suspected militants' homes after the dead bodies of three Israeli teenagers missing since June were found on Monday ... Crime. Juvenile Delinquency. Human Rights ... DETERRENCE ... Awwad's elderly mother, sitting anxiously in her traditional woven robe and white headscarf in their threadbare home in Idhna village, said her family had nothing to do with the dispute ... ....

Harming the innocent: The 'Awad family home in Idhna (B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)

Edit noodls 30 Jun 2014
(Source. B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that the family home of the two Palestinians indicted for the attack that killed Baruch Mizrahi - Za'id 'Awwad and his 18-year-old son - be demolished. Two families numbering 13 individuals, including 8 children, live in that home ... (noodl....

Suspected Israeli revenge killing of Palestinian triggers clashes

Edit Sun Sentinel 26 Jun 2014
... set ablaze during clashes with Israeli police in Shuafat Photos Smoke rises from the home of Palestinian Awad in the village of Idhna, close to the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank An Israeli police officer gestures in the Jerusalem Forest Marwan Kawasme is seen in this undated handout photo released by Israel's Shin Bet Security Agency....
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