The Israeli forces stormed the cities and began to demolish Palestinian suspects following a deadly attack in East Jerusalem-East, which raises fears of new military violence and colonists and collective sanctions in the occupied West Bank while Israel relentlessly beats the Gaza Strip.
Israel said on Tuesday that he interviewed and ordered the demolition of the houses of two Palestinians suspected of the shooting on Monday in Ramot Junction in East Jerusalem-East, who killed six people and injured 12.
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The Hamas armed wing, the Qassam brigades, claimed the responsibility of the shooting, in which the two suspects were killed.
In a statement, the Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that he also ordered that the sanctions be imposed on members of the men of men as well as residents of their cities, Qatanna and Qubeiba, northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank.
These sanctions included the demolition of each structure built without a permit in the cities and the revocation of 750 work permit and entry permit in Israel.
The ministers of the Israeli government, notably Katz and the Minister of Far Right National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, published rigid statements following the attack on Monday, promising to demolish the houses and deport the members of the suspect family.
While Israel says that such actions are intended to dissuade future attacks, Palestinians and human rights groups say they constitute a form of collective sanction, which is prohibited under international law.
Neighbors’ houses are facing demolition
Addressing Tel Aviv Tribune of the occupied West Bank, journalist Leila Warah said that most of the Palestinians in the affected areas built their houses “without the Israeli authorization which was almost impossible for them to obtain it”.
“They are forced to build … on their own land, illegally,” she said. “The Israeli army now, as a punishment, says they will enter and demolish many of these houses.”
Warah said that around a dozen cities and villages near the origin of alleged armed men had been “as a seat”, affecting around 70,000 people. She said that the high military presence made people left for people to leave their homes.
Report of Amman, because Tel Aviv Tribune is prohibited in Israel and occupied West Bank, the correspondent Hamdah Salhut said that Israeli forces had barricaded roads surrounding the houses of alleged armed men.
“There has been a complete seat and locking these areas,” she said. “Collective punishment is in full swing in occupied West Bank.”
Three demolished houses
During the repression in the West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli forces destroyed three other Palestinian houses of Hamas killed agents and a detainee accused of previous attack as a punishment.
The soldiers surrounded the house of the prisoner Thabet Masalma, accused of having made a shooting in December, in the city of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, before exploding the property with explosives.
The RAID triggered clashes with the inhabitants, during which Israeli soldiers fired living ammunition, injuring two people. Masalma is accused of having participated in an attack that killed an Israeli colonist and injured three people.
The demolition left the prisoner’s wife, parents and the three homeless children.
In the city of Aqaba, north of Tubas, in an occupied West Bank, Israeli forces also demolished the houses of two eminent local leaders of the Qassam brigades, the Hamas armed wing, which had been killed in Israeli operations.
Sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that Israeli forces had stormed Aqaba and demolished the house of Abdel Raouf al-Masri who had been killed when Israeli forces surrounded his house and shot him in October from last year.
They then demolished the house of Ahmed Abu Arra, who had been killed in an Israeli strike targeting his vehicle in Jenin in August 2024.
Israel accused him of participating in the formation of armed cells, developing and making explosive devices and carrying out attacks on Israeli targets.
High tensions
While the raids and attacks of settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank increased since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, the attack on Monday increased tensions and aroused fears of increased violence and repression.
On Tuesday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, reported that Israeli forces had stormed the city of Biddu near Qubeiba and closed its main entrance, which links it to the city of Al-Jib and is the only main road for tens of thousands of people.
During the raid, the Israeli forces pulled living ammunition, sound bombs and, during clashes with the inhabitants, tear gas.
Israeli forces have also made a descent into several other cities northwest of Jerusalem and made arrests with tear gas.
Israeli army leader Eyal Zamir said in a statement that he had ordered a “complete closure” of the region, whose armed men alleged in the Monday shooting came.
“We will continue with a determined and continuous operational effort, we will continue terrorist cells everywhere, and we will thwart terrorist infrastructure and its organizers,” he said.
Local sources told Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic that a number of settlers had attacked houses belonging to Palestinians and racist slogans painted by spraying in the village of Jurish, south of Naplus.
Wafa reported that the Israeli settlers also vandalized vehicles belonging to the Palestinians of Jurish, a city southeast of Naplus, breaking their windows, while another group of settlers cut the olive trees cultivated by Palestinian families in neighboring Aqraba.
To the governor of Hebron, the Israeli forces arrested two people and set up several military control points at the entrances to cities, villages and camps. The soldiers also closed several primary and secondary roads, Wafa reported.
