Demolition of Martyr Salah Al-Barghuthi family home for security claims -Kubar village / Ramallah governorate

• Violation: Demolition of martyr Salah Al-Barghuthi house.
• Location: Kubar / North Ramallah.
• Date: 16/04/2019.
• Perpetrator: The Israeli occupation army.
• Victims: Salah Al-Barghuthi family.

Description:

Thursday at midnight,16 April 2019 , a massive army force supported by a bulldozer raided Kubar village north Ramallah and encircled Salah Al-Barghuthi family home before leveling it.

Reportedly , the targeted house is an apartment in a two-floors building, it is in the seconds floor and has an area of 120 m², the apartment was a home for Salah , his wife and 3 years old son Omar.

Noteworthy, The Israeli occupation army commander issued a military order for the demolition of Salah Al-Barghuthi family home, in April 04 , the occupation’s supreme court  refused the plea of Al-Barghuthi family, and passed a resolution to demolish the apartment.

Salah Al-Barghuthi was abducted and executed in cold blood by an Israeli special army force in 12 January, the occupation accuses Salah of collaborating in a shooting towards a station for settlers in Ofra illegal settlement north Ramallah.

The occupation Also demolished his brother Assem Al-Barghuthi’s house in March 2019.

The Israeli occupation collective punishment policies .. 66 houses are detonated for security claims!!

Since Al-Quds uprising of 2015 until the date of this report, Israeli Occupation Forces demolished 68 residences, of which 14 were demolished in 2018. Demolitions were carried out as a collective punishment on the families of those accused of resisting the Israeli occupation.

The following table shows information about demolition for security claims in 2015-2018:

Source : Israeli violations monitoring system – LRC – Arab studies society 2018.

The graph illustrates the number of demolished residences on the claim of “Security Purposes” in West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2018

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC