The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has strongly denounced the Israeli decision to demolish a Palestinian home belonging to the family of Abu Hamid in al-Am’ari Refugee Camp near Ramallah and displace the occupants.
In a statement on Sunday PPS head Qaddura Fares described the decision as “another crime and punitive measure targeting the family of Abu Hamid” after jailing most of its members for life and killing one of them.
According to Fares the Israeli occupation army had demolished the home of this family in 1994 and 2003 and now it intends to do the same within two days and displace all the inhabitants with their children.
Fareq accused Israel of pursuing such extrimist mass punishment policy against the Palestinians since its emergence as an occupying power to punish those who are relatives of martyrs or prisoners.
He condemning such policy as a “violation of the international law.”
There are four young men from the family of Abu Hamid in Israeli jails serving life sentences. They have become prisoners during al-Aqsa Intifada which broke in 2000 and ended in 2005.
A brother of these young men called Islam was kidnapped recently by Israeli soldiers in 2018 June and he could be sentenced to life as well. Another brother Jihad has already been in administrative detention with no indictment or trial.
In 2002 their brother Abdul-Mun’em was killed by Israeli soldiers.
