RAMALLAH, Friday, April 28, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces notified today the family of Kamal Juri, a 22-year-old Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, of their intention to punitively demolish their home in the West Bank city of Nablus, according to Israeli reports.

Juri, along with his friend Osama Tawil, 22, were arrested by the Israeli occupation army on February 13 under the pretext that the two had been behind the shooting to death of an Israeli occupation soldier near the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, in October 2022.

Israeli occupation authorities have long used to punitively demolish the family homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks on Israelis, a policy that Israel does not apply to Israeli settlers who are involved in fatal attacks against Palestinians.

The policy has been widely condemned by human rights groups as a collective punishment and a war crime.

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