What is Israel really trying to do by demolishing the houses?
Israel is trying to create a larger colony in the heart of the old city of Hebron in order to “reduce” the Palestinian population of Hebron while expanding the illegal settler population of Hebron. Sharon has already announced that he supports a plan to build a new colony on the site of the “corridor” with 1,000 illegal housing units. [25] Israel’s use of home demolitions and land confiscations is not new: since 1967 Israel has demolished more than 9,400 Palestinian homes [26] throughout the Occupied West Bank in order to build Israeli Jewish-only colonies. Although Israel often uses the “security” argument to justify its policy of extensive destruction of Palestinian property, what it really doing is constructing new colonies and expanding existing ones. Is the demolition of homes legal? No. Israel’s policy of house demolitions and colony expansion violates basic standards of international law such as the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court a
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