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Israel announces plan to demolish Palestinian home

July 28, 2017 at 4:58 pm

Israeli forces demolish a Palestinian house on 4 July 2017 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]

Israel will demolition the family home of a Palestinian minor who killed three illegal Israeli settlers on 21 July.

Three settlers were killed in an attack in the illegal Halamish settlement, carried out by 17-year-old Palestinian from Kobar, Omar Al-Abed.

The army ordered his family home be evacuated within 72 hours in order for the demolition to go ahead or an appeal must be filed against the decision. Occupation forces have previously raided and imposed a military closure on Kobar, preventing residents from entering or leaving the village.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called for the death penalty for the attacker yesterday.

The death penalty for terrorists – it’s time to implement it in severe cases. It’s anchored in the law.

“You need the judges to rule unanimously on it, but if you want to know the government’s position and my position as prime minister – in a case like this, of a base murderer like this – he should be executed.”

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