A report issued by the central bank of Israel revealed that Intifada III, the wave of knife attacks, deliberate auto accidents and individual non-organized unpredictable operations in recent months, have had alarming impacts on Israeli economy.
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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.
Thomson ReutersIsraeli army soldiers stand guard as bulldozers from the Israeli forces demolished 2 houses in the West Bank village of Dier SamitJERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli army bulldozers on Tuesday demolished the homes of two Palestinians who killed five people in attacks in the occupied West Bank and Israel past year, the military said.
On the same day, Raed Masalmeh stabbed and killed two Israelis in a Tel Aviv office building, according to the military.
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.
Since October, 176 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces.
The IDF has arrested 19 Palestinian terrorism suspects and seized weapons in raids across the West Bank. An Israeli, a Palestinian and an American were killed.
This indirect shifting of the blame for violence onto Israel may be what the Palestinian leadership claims, but it is not what the Israeli leadership believes and is certainly not a given fact, as the article suggests.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under political pressure to halt the violence, has moved to expedite demolitions of alleged attackers’ homes as a punitive measure.
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Palestinians and worldwide critics call the destruction of family homes collective punishment.
