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The Israeli occupation forces demolished on Saturday a building housing the families of six Palestinian prisoners in the Amari refugee camp south of Ramallah in the West Bank, where clashes broke out in which about 60 Palestinians were injured and suffocated by gas inhalation.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces blew up the house of the Abu Humaid family, which is located on the outskirts of al-Am'ari refugee camp, after it detonated explosives inside.

A few days before the bombing, the al-Jazeera photographer was wounded in the head and his hand by a gas bomb fired by Israeli soldiers at journalists in the camp.

At approximately 1:00 pm, about 200 Israeli soldiers, supported by more than 30 military vehicles, surrounded the Abu Humaid family building, at a time when dozens of solidarity activists gathered with the family inside.

Soon after, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the building and pushed more than 30 protesters inside to force it out, then tied up a number of them and assaulted them, and fired sound bombs inside the house to force them to leave in preparation for demolition.

IOF forced dozens of families, including a large number of children and the elderly, to leave their houses surrounding the Abu Humayd family building. They were taken to a playground outside the camp where they were held for hours in the bitter cold. Its nearby headquarters.

The Palestinian Red Crescent transported a woman in labor, several children and elderly people whose health conditions deteriorated among those in severe cold, to hospitals for treatment.

Israeli soldiers break into Abu Humaid family building (social networking sites)

Violent confrontations
During the demolition of the house, the Israeli army repressed the press crews and removed them from the neighborhood of Abu Humaid family, while clashes broke out between the Israeli occupation forces and dozens of Palestinian youths in Jerusalem Street adjacent to the Amari camp.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said more than 60 people were injured in the confrontations to evacuate the Abu Humaid family building, six of whom were taken to hospital for treatment.

The occupation decided to demolish the family's house after the arrest of her son, Islam Abu Humaid, 32, and accused of killing an Israeli soldier by throwing a marble slab from his house on a special force stormed the Amari camp in June.

Activists on Wednesday launched a popular campaign to defend Abu Hamid's house. They put tents in front of the house to sit in, but the Israeli High Court granted the Abu Humaid family until the evening of December 12 to evacuate the house in preparation for its demolition.

This was the third time that the occupation demolished the home of the Abu Humaid family. It was destroyed for the first time in 1994 following the assassination of her son Abdel Moneim Abu Hameed. It was also demolished in 2003 following the arrest of her son, Nasser Abu Humaid, who was accused by the Israeli occupation of being responsible for the bombing. The Second Palestinian Intifada.

In addition to Nasser, who is sentenced to seven years in prison, his brother Nasr is sentenced to life imprisonment five times, Sharif is sentenced to life imprisonment four times, Muhammad is sentenced to life imprisonment for two and thirty years, while Islam is sentenced to life imprisonment.

The mother of the six prisoners, Latifa Abu Humaid, 70, said that the demolition of the family building with its four apartments was a retaliation, after the Israeli court rejected the petitions filed against the demolition of the building in which his son Islam lives. The occupation authorities claimed that the land on which the building was built was confiscated, It is a land belonging to the Amari refugee camp and is owned by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

"We demolished the first and second time and we re-built, and we will build again, as long as our youth are good, we are strong and we will not care," said the mother, nicknamed "Palestine."

The head of the Popular Resistance Committee, Walid Assaf, said the Abu Humaid family's home would be rebuilt soon. He pointed to the threat of hundreds of Palestinian families in 25 villages to uproot Jerusalem and the West Bank.

"The Palestinians have no choice but to confront this policy and refuse to leave their land, and this is part of the battle of the Palestinian people against the occupation," said Assaf, who was backing Nasser Abu Humaid.