Israeli forces demolish stabbing attacker's house in West Bank
Xinhua, June 11, 2016 Adjust font size:
Israeli forces demolished a house in Hebron in West Bank, which belongs to a Palestinian accused of launching stabbing attack and killed an Israeli woman last January, Palestinian and Israeli sources on Saturday said Saturday.
Coordinator of National and Popular Committees against the Wall southern Hebron Rateb Al-Jbour, told Xinhua that Israeli troops raided Yatta village and demolished a house belonging to Murad Ide'is who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers.
Al-Jbour added that the two-storey building is home to ten family members, who were not notified of the demolition previously. He considered that the demolition is part of Israel's collective punishment against Palestinians.
The Islamic Hamas movement said in a statement that the house demolition is a war crime, calling upon the international community to undertake its responsibilities under international law.
"The policy of house demolitions will not succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian people and that the intifada will continue," said the movement in its statement.
The Israeli public radio said that Ide'is carried out a stabbing attack near Onteil settlement in the west Bank last January, killing one woman.
In the same time, Israeli forces arrested 11 Palestinians in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, particularly in Hebron. Endit