Israeli occupation troops murders Palestinian, destroys homes

Israeli occupation troops murders Palestinian, destroy homes

Hebron (West Bank): 16 September, 2003 (IAP News)

Israeli occupation troops on Tuesday shot and killed a Palestinian activist in the southern West Bank town of Dura, 10 kilometers south of Hebron.

Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops backed by two tanks and a helicopter gunship shelled a home in the town killing a 25-year-old Majed Abu Doash.

" I saw the soldiers kill Majed, they could have arrested him very easily, he was unarmed. It was a cold-blooded murder," said Iman Amr, who lives a bout a hundred meters away.

"It is a murder, there is no other name for what happened."

An Israeli army spokesman said the man was a "senior Jihad activist."

The occupation army later brought a huge bulldozer which destroyed the three-story homes where five families were living.

The soldiers didn't allow the families to take out their furniture or belongings.

"They destroyed our life, May God destroy them all," cried Fatma Nassar, looking distraught seeing her home reduced to rubble.

The incident came just hours after occupation forces in the West Bank arrested nine members of Hamas and Fatah. One of those arrested in the overnight raids was a teenager from Nablus.

The Israeli army routinely demolishes the family homes of Palestinian activists.

The practice of house demolitions, considered a war crime under international law, has been stepped up lately with the Israeli army resorting to dynamiting high-rising multi-story buildings in Palestinian towns.

In the last two weeks, the Zionist army destroyed several such buildings, condemning more than 30 families (150 men, women and children) to homelessness. On Wednesday September 10th, zionist troops demolished a multi-storey apartment-building in Hebron, dooming 28 innocent Palestinian families to homelessness, and on the next day, September 11th, army bulldozers demolished as many as 15 homes at the Yibna refugee camp in Rafah at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, demolished the family home of Abdullah al Kawasmi, a Hamas resistance fighter assassinated by Israel nearly three months ago, and on the same day destroyed a two-story family home in Ramallah.

Also on September 11th, in Tulkarm to the north, Israeli occupation forces stormed a hospital, terrorizing staff and patients, and seizing documents and computers, Palestinian sources said.

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