• Israeli forces demolish 14 homes as collective punishment – more than half belonged to neighbors
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[quote]Security forces called on loudspeakers to the residents of nearby houses, instructing them to leave their homes and move about 100 meters away. When Abu Shahin’s apartment was blown up, the apartment on the floor below it was also damaged, as was an apartment in a nearby building that was home to four people, including two minors. Both apartments were severely damaged and are no longer habitable. Another five apartments in nearby buildings were also damaged, but to a lesser extent. Initial information gathered by B’Tselem indicates that while the security forces were in the refugee camp on the demolition mission, an exchange of gunfire developed between them and local residents; Ahmad Abu al-‘Eish, 30, and Laith As’ad, 20, were killed by Israeli gunfire. Three other Palestinians were taken to hospital after sustaining wounds from live fire or rubber-coated metal bullets. B’Tselem’s investigation of the incident is under way. The day before, in the early hours of Saturday 14 November, Israeli security forces came to the city of Nablus and the village of Silwad, Ramallah District, and blew up five apartments as collective punishment for attacks against Israelis carried out by relatives of the homes’ inhabitants. The force of the blasts severely damaged six other apartments, making them uninhabitable, and caused some damage to 16 other structures nearby. In Nablus, security forces blew up four apartments that were home to relatives of the three Palestinians suspected of killing Israelis Na’ama and Eitam Henkin on 1 October 2015, leaving fourteen people homeless. The force of the blast destroyed six other apartments that were not slated for demolition, so the actions of Israel’s security forces left another sixteen persons homeless.[/quote] [img_thumb]http://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/library/20151116_amer_home_demolished_in_qalandia.jpg[/img_thumb] [url]http://www.btselem.org/punitive_demolitions/20151117_security_forced_demolish_14_homes[/url]
"collective punishment for attacks against Israelis carried out by relatives of the homes’ inhabitants" Jesus Christ, are they trying to be North Korea?
[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;49165013]"collective punishment for attacks against Israelis carried out by relatives of the homes’ inhabitants" Jesus Christ, are they trying to be North Korea?[/QUOTE] Nah, this is expected of Israel honestly. Expect them to run over a few children on the way out as well.
On 15 November 2015, about half an hour after midnight, a large number of Israeli security forces entered Qalandia Refugee Camp in the West Bank in order to demolish by detonation the home of [i]Muhammad Abu Shahin, a Palestinian held on charges of killing Danny Gonen, an Israeli[/i], on 19 June 2015. pretty big info you left out PA pays terrorists a monthly stipend, Israel demolishes the homes of terrorists to offset that stipend.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;49165104]On 15 November 2015, about half an hour after midnight, a large number of Israeli security forces entered Qalandia Refugee Camp in the West Bank in order to demolish by detonation the home of [i]Muhammad Abu Shahin, a Palestinian held on charges of killing Danny Gonen, an Israeli[/i], on 19 June 2015. pretty big info you left out PA pays terrorists a monthly stipend, Israel demolishes the homes of terrorists to offset that stipend.[/QUOTE] Even if you consider that alright (I don't), they still took away the homes of a load of other innocent people.
[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;49165013]"collective punishment for attacks against Israelis carried out by relatives of the homes’ inhabitants" Jesus Christ, are they trying to be North Korea?[/QUOTE] They're trying to make it unthinkable to attack their population. The idea that a potential terrorist's neighbors will learn of their plans and work to stop them, thus saving lives.
[QUOTE=Ridge;49165485]They're trying to make it unthinkable to attack their population. The idea that a potential terrorist's neighbors will learn of their plans and work to stop them, thus saving lives.[/QUOTE] Oh boy, first Israel starts displacing Palestinians to create more Lebensraum and now this? I wonder who that reminds me of? There's a certain irony here...
[QUOTE=Ridge;49165485]They're trying to make it unthinkable to attack their population. The idea that a potential terrorist's neighbors will learn of their plans and work to stop them, thus saving lives.[/QUOTE] Or it goes the other way. "Even if you have no knowlegde of the terrorists plans, we're still fucking up your property" That's pretty barbaric either way, and it won't work for long. Controlling people through fear will bite them in the ass, and i hope it happens soon.
Is it possible for me to hate both the Israeli government and Hamas at the same time?
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49165585]Is it possible for me to hate both the Israeli government and Hamas at the same time?[/QUOTE] Nope, sorry, the rules of Internet partisanism are that you must either be 100% pro-Hamas or be entirely against all Palestinians ever. That's just how things go.
Collective Punishment is a horrible thing and anyone who thinks it's a good idea should feel bad.
In the last couple of months 22 Israelis have been murdered and 192 have been wounded (20 of whom critically wounded) in random stabbing, shooting and car attack all over Israel and the West Bank. Plenty more attacks against Israeli civilians have been foiled before the terrorists managed to hurt anyone in that time. We're talking 3-4 attacks against random people in the street every day. For example, this is today so far: [URL="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4729158,00.html"]http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4729158,00.html[/URL] [QUOTE] Hadar Buchris, a 21-year-old Israeli woman from Safed, was seriously wounded and later declared deceased after a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank on Sunday afternoon. IDF troops from the Kfir Brigade shot and killed her attacker.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]On Sunday morning, two stabbing terror attacks were thwarted in the West Bank when a 16-year-old Palestinian girl tried to stab Israelis near Itamar and a Palestinian taxi driver tried to stab an Israeli man after failing to run over pedestrians near Jerusalem. Both terrorists were shot dead, while an Israeli was lightly wounded.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4728871,00.html"]http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4728871,00.html[/URL] [QUOTE]A Palestinian teenager stabbed four people, including a 13-year-old girl, in the southern city of Kiryat Gat on Saturday evening. The 18-year-old attacker managed to flee the scene, but was caught several hours later after a massive manhunt.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4728817,00.html"] http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4728817,00.html[/URL] [QUOTE]Palestinian woman walking towards checkpoint ignored security forces' instructions to stop and was arrested; search of her possession uncovered large kitchen knife she allegedly planned to use in attack.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile, house demolitions have to be approved by the Israeli Supreme Court (which, not surprisingly, not always approves them), and have proven even in the latest round of violence to be a somewhat effective countermeasure to the official and popular support these terrorists get, which is what motivates people to fucking stab innocent people in the fucking street. Specifically, in at least one case a family turned in their stabby son after the fact, sparing them a destroyed house and him a potential lead poisoning.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;49165242]Even if you consider that alright (I don't), they still took away the homes of a load of other innocent people.[/QUOTE] It's easy to judge when you don't have active terrorist forces bordering your country.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;49166607]It's easy to judge when you don't have active terrorist forces bordering your country.[/QUOTE] It's still disgusting...
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