The VIDEO-IOF demolishes Palestinian homes in South Hebron was released April 11th, 2007, courtesy of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
On Wednesday 14th February Israeli Occupation Forces demolished a large number of houses and agricultural structures in four different villages in the South Hebron Hills – Qwawis, M’nezel, Um-Elhe’r and the Abu-Kbeita family near Yatir settlement. The villagers in this area struggle to stay on their land despite ongoing home demolitions, violent attacks and constant settler and military harassment.
If you have never seen the Israeli military demolish a Palestinian home, this is the opportunity. According to the Israel Committee Against House Demolition, it has happened tens of thousands of times since 1967, the year the Israeli military first occupied the West Bank and Gaza. The occupation of course continues.
Read full story at the ISM site,
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/02/15/cpt-hebron-demolitions/
Reprinted by permission of ISM.
Video taken by Tayyush
How much longer is this kind of obscenity going to go on?
As long as the international community, particularly the American public, allows it to go on.
Which, as far as I can see, is going to be a while yet.
They try to justify the demolitions in Rafah by saying they’re trying to stop weapons smuggling.
But that wouldn’t work in Hebron. So what’s they’re excuse. I know what their reasons are but what’s their official excuse?
According to one witness from this video, sometimes the reasons can be pretty arbitrary.
It is often the case that the family did not have a building permit. But then again, the military forces administering the occupation, for 40 years now, do not issue permits. It is another method used in the slow ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
DKos, you continue to utilize sockpuppets to try to evade the consequences of being banned.
Apparently this has led to your involuntary separation from Evenhanded Democrats:
You obviously have considerable dedication. But why have you chosen these troublesome means?
Who gives a fuck?
Perhaps it’s more important to you to push the dkos version of blog etiquette and try to score pathetic peuedo internet slueth points with this infantile attempt at???what?? exactly? Does your petty revelation alter the video of Palestinian homes being demolished or the evidence of Israel’s ongoing genocide?
And who/what organization do you represent?
shergald’s behavior presents an interesting phenomenon, which, unfortunately, he so far has declined to explain.
If you’re not interested, of course, you’re free to ignore it.
Their tacit approval of continuing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is implicit in their readiness to attack the messenger, as if the messenger in this case had something to do with making this video of Israeli soldiers, some of them laughing all the way, demolishing a Palestinian house, leaving its residents out in the cold.
The hope of course is that the large family occupying that home, obviously a impoverished dwelling as it stood, is that they will depart the West Bank. About 90,000 Palestinians each year leave the West Bank and Gaza due to hardship intentionally provided by the settlers and the Israeli Occupation Forces.
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING ON THE WEST BANK CONTINUES AS RIGHT WING ZIONISTS LIKE THIS ONE, KNOWN AS aAMERICAN ON DAILY KOS, CHEER ALL THE WAY.