The Israeli occupation forces demolish the house of prisoners for the fourth time in Ramallah

Mervat Sadek - Ramallah

The Israeli army demolished a house under construction for the fourth time in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.

A large number of Israeli occupation forces stormed the camp since 3 dawn, about ten families living in the vicinity of the house, which the family rebuilt after the demolition of the end of last year, to leave their homes.

During the demolition, clashes erupted between the Israeli army and dozens of members of the camp, causing dozens of severe suffocation. According to local sources, the Israeli soldiers arrested three young men from the camp and the neighborhood of Umm al-Shrayit adjacent to it.

Ambulance crews were attacked by the Israeli occupation forces while trying to rescue people with rubber bullets and suffocation in their homes due to the firing of heavy gas bombs, according to the medics of the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Israeli Channel 7 reported earlier that "information reached the Israeli army to rebuild the house several months after the demolition, where it was decided to demolish again." The occupation army also decided to confiscate the land on which the house was built.

"We are strong and will not cry for the destroyed stones. Whenever they demolish a house, we will rebuild it," said the owner of the house, Latifa Abu Hameed, the mother of six prisoners in Israeli jails, who stood near the demolition. With the support of the Palestinian Presidency.

Land confiscation
The 70-year-old mother said that the Israeli occupation intelligence informed her ten days ago of the decision to demolish the house under the pretext of building on confiscated land, "even though the land belongs to UNRWA and is located within the Palestinian Authority."

The Israeli occupation demolished a building consisting of four apartments belonging to the families of Abu Hameed prisoners and their mother in mid-December 2018 after the arrest of her son Islam Abu Hameed (32 years) 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. Last June.

The Israeli occupation destroyed the home of the Abu Hamid family for the first time in 1994 following the assassination of her son Abdel Moneim Abu Hamid. After years of rebuilding in another neighborhood in the camp, the occupation demolished it again in 2003 after the arrest of her son, Nasser Abu Hameed, who accused him of being behind suicide attacks that killed seven Israelis during the second Palestinian intifada.

In addition to Nasser, who is sentenced to life imprisonment seven times, the occupation arrests his brothers Nasr sentenced to life five times, Sharif sentenced to life four times, Mohammed sentenced to life imprisonment thirty-two years, while their brother Islam was also sentenced to life imprisonment last July, and is serving Jihad - The youngest - in renewed administrative detention without charge.