Israel bombed two houses as an exemplary punishment It was the second day of Ramadan. Qawasme family was ready to break their day long fast when hundreds of soldiers burst into their house. The family, mostly composed by children, was forced to get out. During the first two hours, they waited in the street, hoping the soldiers would soon leave. When they had realized that it would not have happened they decided to take shelter to their relatives’ home. IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) raided the house for four hours destroying everything they found on their way. Even the Ramadan breakfast, that the familiy couldn’t have, was still laiding on the floor the day after.To conclude the operation and to prevent any further chance to restore material and moral damages they also bombed a part of the house.The explosion injured a 55- days - old babyborn in a neighbour house. According to the witnesses, the soldiers had prevented the ambulance to reach the place for two hours. The Qawasme are the family of Marwan, one of the suspected killers of the three Israeli teens, according to Netanyahu’s Government. Marwan is 29 and, as the family explains, he used to work as a barber and his wife is expecting their first son. He disappeared on 12th June, as the three Jews boys that were hitchiking in an area between Hebron and Bethlehem. Marwan Qawasme is linked to Hamas and he previously had been in jail. The family considers the demolition a huge punishment for all of their twenty members. Two hours later Abu Aisha family experienced the same sequence of events: more than one hundred soldiers violently came in, requiring all the family membres to get out, destroying everything and finally bombing a part of the house. The owner, who got arrested few days ago, is Amar’s father, the other suspected killer of the three Israeli teens who also disappeared at the same time as Marwan Qawasme. This is the second time that Abu Aisha suffers that kind of family punishment as their house was also bombed and rebuilt in the early 90s. Among the ruins, the family ensures that will find again the strength and the energy to rebuild their own dwelling. After all, the way chosen by Israel was not to punish the guilty but the suspects and their families. Once more, Israel looses its aclaimed “democratic” features in the Occupied Territories: while a normal democracy would do a research to find the charges and would provide a fair trial, Israel decided to bomb and to destroy the family houses of the unfounded suspects. Probably the objective was to apply an exemplary punishment. Far from that, this afternoon some neighbours decided to show their solidarity.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:08:26 +0000
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