The Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the policy of collective punishment against the families of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in their prisons, since 2019 and early 2020, most notably the policy of house demolitions and issuing military orders to pursue their families ’allocations through the policy of terrorism, According to what Al-Asir Club mentioned in a statement today, Monday.
And he considered that the occupation authorities and all of their apparatuses are carrying out a war against the families of the prisoners, in an attempt to target the Palestinian presence, and escalate their abusive and reprisal tools, which are accompanied by an international silence despite their continuous violation of all the rules of international humanitarian law and international agreements.
The Prisoners Club has shown a set of systematic methods implemented by the occupation against the families of the prisoners, which fall within the policy of collective punishment, including: calling the families of the prisoners and detainees to pressure their detained children, in order to extract confessions from them during the investigation period or arrest them in order to obtain information, or just for revenge This included the parents and siblings of the detainees and their siblings, in addition to the repeated incursions into their homes, and carrying out attacks and sabotage operations.
And the policy of demolishing the prisoners´ homes has emerged as a historically systematic policy, as the occupation authorities practiced it with high intensity in the years of high confrontation, according to the prisoner club.
Since the beginning of the year 2020, the occupation forces have demolished four houses belonging to the families of prisoners in the occupation prisons, they are: Ahmed Qanba from Jenin, Walid Hanache, and Yazan Maghamis from Ramallah, in addition to the house of the family of the prisoner Qassam Al-Barghouthi, which was demolished at dawn today in the village of Kober, north of Ram God, according to what the club mentioned.
And that the prisoner Barghouti, who had been detained since August 26, 2019, was subjected to severe torture in the "Al-Maskubiya" investigation center, which lasted for approximately (80) days, and his family faced repeated abuse and detention, where his mother, Dr. Widad al-Barghouthi and his brother, Carmel Barghouti, were appointed at the beginning of September 2019, and his mother was released under conditions, and his brother was released after a seven-month detention period.
The prisoner club stated that on the date of the fifth of March 2020, the occupation forces demolished the homes of the two prisoners, Yazan Maghamis and Walid Hanache, in Ramallah, knowing that the prisoner Maghamis has been detained since the eleventh of September 2019, where he was subjected to severe torture during interrogation in a prison. Al-Muskobiyyah ", which lasted for nearly two months, in addition to the prisoner Hanache, who was also subjected to severe torture since his arrest on October 3, 2019, and lasted for more than two months.
The occupation forces also demolished the house of the Al-Asir Qanba family for the second time on the sixth of February, where the house was previously demolished in 2018, knowing that it has been detained since the seventeenth of January 2018, and it is still detained, according to Al-Asir Club.
He pointed out that, during the past year 2019, the occupation forces demolished the house of the captive Khalil Yusef Jabareen from the town of Yatta, Asim Al-Barghouthi from the village of Cooper and the house of his brother, the martyr Saleh. The ankle northwest of Hebron are: Ahmed Asafra, his brother Qasim, Nasir Salih Asafra and Youssef Saeed Zahour.
