Israeli soldiers detonated, Wednesday, the family home of Mohammad Souf, 18, whom the army killed on November 15, 2022, near the central West Bank city of Salfit.
Media sources said at least fifty army vehicles and Corps of Engineers invaded Hares village, west of Salfit, late at night before storming the Souf family home, assaulting his parents and siblings, and forcing them out of their property.
They added that the soldiers also stormed neighboring homes and forced the families out before wiring the three-story 300 square-meter under-construction building and detonating it.
The soldiers also assaulted many Palestinians who gathered in the area and threatened to shoot them if they did not leave.
It is worth mentioning that an Israeli security guard killed Mohammad Souf on November 15, 2022, after he allegedly stabbed and killed three Israeli colonizers in Ariel illegal colony.
In addition, the soldiers demolished the home of Younis Hilan, imprisoned by Israel for allegedly participating in the shooting with Mohammad. The demolished home in is Hajjah town, east of Qalqilia in the northern West Bank.
The three Israelis, who were killed in the incident, have been identified as Tamir Avichai, 50, from Kiryat Netafim colony in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, Michael Ledigin, 36, Bat-Yam, and Moshe Ashkenazi, 59, from Yavne.
Israel’s home demolition policy is an illegal act of collective punishment that constitutes war crimes and violates various international and human rights treaties, including the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 for the Protection of civilian persons in times of war, as well as article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued in 1948, and numerous United Nations resolutions.
