By; Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
Nazi Occupied Palestine : In recent years, the Nazi occupation authorities have continued the policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinian prisoners and families of martyrs, in implementation of the policy of collective punishment.
The Nazi occupation authorities had notified 4 families of the prisoners’ families, in separate areas of the occupied West Bank, to demolish their homes, allegedly carrying out 3 operations, which resulted in the killing of an Nazi soldier and settlers, according to the occupation claim.
There is talk about the homes of the prisoners, “Walid Hanatsheh from al-Tira and weighing magmas from Birzeit,” accused of carrying out the bombing operation near Ramallah, in which a settlement was killed and two others were wounded. Which resulted in the killing of Nazi soldier.
The decision also includes the demolition of the house of the prisoner Ahmad Qanba, from Jenin, and the occupation is charged with assisting the martyr Ahmed Jarrar with the killing of a settler, beginning of 2018 west of Nablus.
In the past months, the occupation authorities demolished the homes of Palestinian prisoners in the town of Beit Kahil, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
On the 28th of last November, homes of “Naseer Salih Asafra, Qasim Asafra and his brother Ahmed and Youssef Saeed Al-Zuhour” were demolished, on charges of carrying out the “Etzion” operation north of Hebron.
A video clip published by the Quds News Network documented a number of the words of the families of the destroyed prisoners, their homes: “The house came to me, the important thing is my son, it is good, they will come out, the occupation will be gone.”
Families of the prisoners: we remain, and the occupation is fleeting
The policies of collective punishment prove their failure again, every time the occupation punishes the town from which a Palestinian guerrilla comes out, all the residents move to break the restrictions and measures of the occupation by standing firm, and they stand united to reject it.
Moreover, the families of the prisoners announce each time that their children are more expensive than homes, and they communicate their message to the occupation that coercive policies do not discourage the act of resistance, and that the message of sacrifice remains and continues.
In this context, the mother of the captive, Yazan Maghamis, said in a video documented, that the demolition of homes does not cancel the memory inside us, adding: “We carry memories in our hearts, and the important thing is that we weigh well, exist, and we exist, and the occupation is fleeting.”
The daughter of the captive Walid Hanache, told Quds News , that the occupation is going to punish the residents to reach the ocean, when the occupation decided to demolish the house, despite the fact that it was located in a residential building inhabited by others who have nothing to do with them and will be affected without a goal. Failed and do not push parents to change their perception of their children, but the exact opposite. “
Palestinian campaign against demolition
For its part, a group of “lawyers, activists and human rights defenders” launched a campaign to combat the policy of collective punishment pursued by the occupation authorities, especially those related to the demolition of the homes of martyrs and prisoners in the occupation prisons.
The group considered that this Israeli escalation is a serious violation of international law, specifically international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, and that the occupation authorities aim to launch a psychological and economic war against the families of martyrs and prisoners, and this policy has escalated since 2015, especially in occupied Jerusalem.
She emphasized that the penalty for house demolitions is the most prevalent, but that the occupation authorities pursue various other methods to suppress and put pressure on the Palestinian people, and these methods include withdrawing the IDs of Jerusalem residents, deporting them or canceling work permits for their families, in addition to prohibiting any new construction at the site of the demolished house and confiscating all Properties”.
