Caterpillar bulldozers are seen demolishing a residential home in the Jabal Mukabbir neighborhood in east Jerusalem, May 21, 2013. The home was demolished on the grounds that it was built without a "legal building permit" (Photo: Activestills)

ICAHD deplores decision to resume punitive house demolitions

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) deplores and denounces the decision of the Netanyahu government to resume the demolition of homes of those “suspected or convicted of involvement in terrorism and other violence.” All house demolitions in the Palestinian occupied territories “are war crimes, but the demolition of homes of innocent family members of people accused of crimes constitutes…