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LAW SUBMITS HIGH COURT PETITION AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITIONS IN ASIRA AL SHAMALIYA  

OVER 40 PEOPLE TO BE LEFT HOMELESS

27 October 1997

LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment
PO Box 20873
Jerusalem, via Israel
Tel: (972) (2) 5812364/5824559
Fax: (972) (2) 5811072
email: lawe@netvision.net
web page: http://www.birzeit.edu/lawe

On Sunday 26 October, LAW submitted a petition to the Israeli High Court to stop the demolition of the homes of the four families of alleged suicide bombers.  The Israeli military ordered the demolition of these homes based on the Emergency Law of 1945, and argued that the alleged bombers had live
d in the homes just before committing the bombing.  The Military Court rejected the first appeal, submitted by LAW, and confirmed the demolitions but stated that two homes would be only partially sealed.

The families are: 
- Jamil Ashouliya, house to be totally demolished, second floor rented to doctor and family
- Mohammed Sawalha, 87 years old, home to be both 
partially demolished and sealed
- Ali Yassin, 70 years old, home to be demolished
- Mohammed Jarara', home to be partially sealed.  
Engineer reports state that the home cannot sustain 
the cement used in a sealing, and irreparable 
damage would be done to the entire structure.

The destruction of these homes would make homeless 
over 40 people, including elderly parents over the 
age of 70 and several babies less than a year old.  
One  of these homes has a store on the ground 
floor, and is the only source of income for the 
family.  

These homes have orders for demolition for 
"security and deterrent" reasons, to punish the 
families and to destroy the homes where the attacks 
were allegedly planned.  In all four of these 
cases, the young men in question had not lived at 
these homes for nearly two years.  They were 
arrested by the Palestinian police in winter of 
1995, escaped in early spring 1996 and have been in 
hiding since.  They could not have planned or 
discussed any attacks from these homes.   The 
families in question do not believe their sons were 
involved, condemn entirely the attacks, and have 
received no evidence that their sons were in fact 
involved, including the fact that they have been 
denied permission to identify the bodies of the 
bombers.
In one case, the second floor of the house is 
rented to a doctor and his family, who are 
unrelated to the family.  They too will suffer the 
loss of their home.

LAW condemns the demolition of these homes as a 
collective punishment, and thus as a violation of 
international law and the 
internationally-recognized right to shelter.  The 
destruction of the homes of the families of alleged 
suicide bombers punishes only the innocent.  There 
has never been, at any time, evidence that the 
destruction of the homes of the families of alleged 
bombers deters attacks.  It does, however, impose 
extreme hardship for the families, and breeds 
resentment and despair.

LAW requests all those who condemn this kind of 
collective punishment to fax immediately the 
following, demanding that the demolitions not be 
carried out and requesting a reconsideration of 
this particularly brutal policy: Israeli Prime 
Minister (972) (2) 566 4838, Minister of Foreign 
Affairs David Levy (972) (2) 530 3506, Defense 
Minister Yitzhak Mordechai (972) (3) 691 6940.  
Electronic mail to: Prime Minister Benyamin 
Netanyahu: pm@pmo.gov.il, the Office of the Prime 
Minister: feedback@pmo.gov.il, and the Israeli 
Government Press Office: gpo@pmo.gov.il, The 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 
ask@israel-info.gov.il.  
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LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of 
Human Rights and the Environment is a 
non-governmental organization, dedicated to 
preserving human rights through legal advocacy.  
LAW is also an affiliate member of the Paris-based 
International Federation for Human Rights.