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Israel to demolish home of Palestinian detainee in Ramallah

Friday 11-October-2019

The Israeli occupation forces at dawn Friday broke into the family house of the Palestinian detainee Yazan Mghames in Birzeit town north of Ramallah City.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing the IOF soldiers taking the measurements of the house in preparation for demolishing it.

Mghames a student at Birzeit University was arrested by Israeli occupation forces on 11 September.

The Israeli Intelligence Service (Shin Bet) at the end of September announced that it had arrested a Palestinian cell affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and accused them of planting a bomb in Ein Bubin area west of Ramallah on 23 August killing an Israeli settler and injuring two others.

The Shin Bet claimed that Mghames was a member of the cell responsible for the blast.

Israel demolishes the family homes of Palestinian martyrs detainees and resistance fighters as part of the collective punishment policy it pursues against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

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