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BBC reports this morning that the us of home demolitions by the IDF is increasing...
Reduced To Rubble
"Wood-fired barbecue was our speciality. Delicious," says Ramzi Kasiyah as he picks his way gingerly over a pile of rubble and twisted metal. Broken glass crackles under his feet.
"We had a beautiful terrace. Now I have nothing."
Up until a few weeks ago Ramzi was the proud owner of the Palestinian Al Mukhrur restaurant just outside Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Now he presides over what looks like a bomb site, a grey scar in a beautiful, small valley, still lush from the winter's rains.
At the beginning of May, Israeli forces flattened the restaurant.
Ramzi shows me a mobile phone video of huge yellow diggers smashing through the roof, as he and his staff looked on helplessly
"12 years' work was gone in 5 minutes," he says.
BBC News - Palestinians see 'sharp increase' in demolitions
I have no problem at all with demoliting the home of a terrorist...but the concept of collective punishment and demolishing the homes of innocent people goes against all concepts of known justice. It does more to endanger Israel by creating terror than it does to ensure peace and security.
Reduced To Rubble
"Wood-fired barbecue was our speciality. Delicious," says Ramzi Kasiyah as he picks his way gingerly over a pile of rubble and twisted metal. Broken glass crackles under his feet.
"We had a beautiful terrace. Now I have nothing."
Up until a few weeks ago Ramzi was the proud owner of the Palestinian Al Mukhrur restaurant just outside Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Now he presides over what looks like a bomb site, a grey scar in a beautiful, small valley, still lush from the winter's rains.
At the beginning of May, Israeli forces flattened the restaurant.
Ramzi shows me a mobile phone video of huge yellow diggers smashing through the roof, as he and his staff looked on helplessly
"12 years' work was gone in 5 minutes," he says.
BBC News - Palestinians see 'sharp increase' in demolitions
I have no problem at all with demoliting the home of a terrorist...but the concept of collective punishment and demolishing the homes of innocent people goes against all concepts of known justice. It does more to endanger Israel by creating terror than it does to ensure peace and security.