{"id":13835,"date":"2012-01-30T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13835"},"modified":"2012-01-30T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:45:45","slug":"destroying-palestinian-homes-and-driving-tractors-over-their-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/destroying-palestinian-homes-and-driving-tractors-over-their-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying Palestinian Homes and Driving Tractors Over Their Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"

From AFP over the weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The United Nations\u00a0has called on\u00a0Israel\u00a0to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the\u00a0West Bank\u00a0after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces\u00a0destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2011, “forcibly displacing” almost 1,100 people, over half of them children, according to a\u00a0UN Office\u00a0for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is, of course, nothing new. The UN repeatedly recognizes many of Israel’s actions as unacceptable or illegal. The blockade on Gaza is another frequent one, but the forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank is probably the most prevalent.\u00a0The\u00a0Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions<\/a>\u00a0(ICAHD), submitted\u00a0a report<\/a>\u00a0in September to three of the UN\u2019s Special Rapporteurs claiming that Israel\u2019s actions in East Jerusalem\u00a0violate international law, may constitute a war crime, and asked for an investigation into these practices. It says Israel is \u201cforcing the migration process on the basis of ethnicity \u2013 which violates international law, and is possibly a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

As is so common when talking about human rights abuses with a bird’s eye view, the true nature of what it means to destroy Palestinian homes, build new settlements, and prevent them from building their own homes is obscured and indistinct. Which brings us to another incident that occurred over the weekend: a\u00a0Palestinian man was building a house in the occupied West Bank in violation of Israeli rules of domination. As\u00a0Philip Weiss explained it<\/a>:\u00a0“The man refused to move. The Israeli army drove a tractor over his legs. The tractor belonged to the Palestinians. The Israeli army had seized it. The man was hospitalized.”<\/p>\n

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More information and photographs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a single reason this kind of daily abuse and illegality continues, and it doesn’t have anything to do with Israeli intransigence. That single factor is American support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From AFP over the weekend: The United Nations\u00a0has called on\u00a0Israel\u00a0to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the\u00a0West Bank\u00a0after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year. Israeli forces\u00a0destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2011, “forcibly displacing” almost 1,100 people, over half of them children, according to a\u00a0UN Office\u00a0for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13840,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}