The Israeli human rights organization must act against the rule of law.
Israel began carrying out punitive measures on Sunday that it says will target the families of Palestinians who carried out the attacks.
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu the cabinet said that the home of the 21-year-old man who shot 7 people on Friday in East Jerusalem will be sealed immediately before it is destroyed. The man was shot by the police on Friday after the incident.
An AFP correspondent saw Palestinians carrying their belongings out of the apartment after the Israeli armed forces closed the doors to the man’s home.
The shooter’s mother is one of the five people still in police custody on Sunday, the police said. A total of 42 suspects were arrested after the shooting in the colony on Friday.
The Israeli government announced on Sunday that the home of the 13-year-old Palestinian boy who wounded two people in the shooting on Saturday will also be sealed. He was wounded during the capture and is in custody.
Although it is customary for Israel to destroy the homes of Palestinians who have killed Israelis, the measure requires advance notice to the families, who may appeal the measure.
“Contrary to the rule of law”
Legal expert of the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked By Dani Shenhar according to the immediate sealing of the shooter’s home shows the government’s desire to take revenge on the perpetrators’ families.
– The measure was carried out in complete violation of the rule of law, he said and added that Hamoked plans to file a protest with Israel’s Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sunday’s planned house demolitions are the result of Israel’s security cabinet announcing new measures late Saturday to reduce the rights of “terrorist families who support terrorism.” The Security Cabinet said in its statement that it would take away their right to social security.
The cabinet also announced that the Council of Ministers will discuss a bill on Sunday that would take away Israeli identity cards from “terrorist families”. This would likely apply to Palestinians with Israeli citizenship as well as Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem.
The weekend shootings were preceded by the events in which the Israeli armed forces killed ten Palestinians earlier in the week in the West Bank. A total of 34 Palestinian adults and children have died in the conflict this year.
Source: AFP