Alwaght- Israeli regime ordered on Sunday the punitive demolition of Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Yousef Jaradat’s home in the town of Silat al-Harithiya of Jenin.
Jaradat’s family had earlier submitted a petition through HaMoked human rights group to annul the demolition order, but was informed today that the petition was rejected and that their home is now slated for demolition, WAFA news agency reported.
Last week, Israeli regime army blew up the home of Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Jaradat in Silat al-Harithiya amid fierce clashes with local residents and residents of neighboring villages.
Tel Aviv regime has convicted both Mahmoud and Mohammad of killing a colonial Israeli settler outside Homesh yeshiva in the north of the occupied West Bank last December.
The apartheid regime has long used to punitively demolish the family homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks on Israelis, a policy that Israel does not apply to Israeli settlers who are involved in fatal attacks against Palestinians.
The policy has been widely condemned by human rights groups as a collective punishment and a war crime.
Israeli regime bulldozes Palestinian land in Naqab region
In another development, Israeli regime forces today bulldozed large tracts of Palestinian land in the villages of Umm Batin and Tal as-Sabi in the Naqab region in the south of occupied Palestine.
Witnesses said that Israeli Police accompanied by bulldozers embarked on bulldozing Palestinian land in the area since the early morning hours, while denying access of owners and their supporters.
Last month, protests broke out in the area and neighboring villages against continuing Israeli forestation work on land Palestinian citizens say they privately own near the southern city of Beer al-Sabe.
The escalation in mid-January began when bulldozers from the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a quasi-governmental agency, arrived with heavy police protection in the village of al-Atrash and razed Bedouin farming lands, in order to plant trees.
Bedouin Palestinians protested against the move then for days. Videos and images shared on social media showed Israeli forces violently arresting and beating residents who arrived to defend the lands they use for farming wheat and barley.
Some 300,000 Palestinian Bedouins, who hold Israeli citizenship, live in the Naqab region, which makes up about half of the entire landmass of historic Palestine.
More than 90,000 of them live in at least 35 Israeli-deemed “unrecognized” villages under threat of demolition, with the state viewing them as “trespassers”.
In 2019, Israeli authorities announced a plan to forcibly transfer 36,000 residents in unrecognized villages to other townships.
Israeli authorities have refused to connect the majority of unrecognized villages to the national electricity or water grids and do not provide them with basic services, such as paved roads and sewage systems.
