Saturday, November 22, 2014

Israel restarts controversial tactic: Razing Palestinian homes after attacks

Jersualem

JERUSALEM – Just before dawn earlier this week, an explosion rocked the densely populated Silwan neighborhood that sits on a steep hillside in East Jerusalem, destroying the fourth-floor apartment of Abed Rahman Shalodi and his family.



Israeli authorities had blown up the Shalodi home after Shalodi ran his car into a crowd of people in Jerusalem last month, killing a woman and a three-month-old girl


Police shot and killed Shalodi after the attack. But, following a controversial policy, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) demolished the family home, extending punishment to Shalodi's relatives. Read more...


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