Rights group condemn home demolitions as “disproportionate”, causing hardship for entire families, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says they are “one of the most efficient tools” in discouraging Palestinian attacks.
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Clashes: Palestinian protesters stand on top of a barricade during clashes with the Israeli military in the West Bank village of Kabatiya, near Jenin, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.
The report comes amid months of near-daily Palestinian attacks on civilians and security forces.
Mohammed al-Harub is accused of opening fire at a a crossroads near illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank before ramming his vehicle into a group of pedestrians.
The Israeli military said in a statement released on Tuesday that its forces demolished the homes of Raed Khalil Masalmeh in the town of Dura and Mahmoud Harub in village of Dir Smat, both situated near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
The boycott campaign organizers said that British weapons were used in the Israeli massacres against Palestinians during the last aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The same day, Raid Masalmeh stabbed two Israelis to death at an office building and auto park in Tel Aviv.
While the article presented both the Israeli claim that such demolitions serve as a deterrence to would-be terrorists and the Palestinian claim that the demolitions are collective punishment, when it came to explaining the recent wave of Palestinian terrorist stabbings, shootings, slayings and rioting, the article relayed the Palestinian position as fact, not claim. At least 166 Palestinians have been killed, 119 said by Israel to have been attackers.
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The posters, created to look like genuine adverts, were pasted on tube trains by London Palestine Action as part of this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week.
