The Israeli Defense Forces demolished the West Bank home of an alleged Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...terrorist accused of being involved in a deadly shooting attack next to the settlement of Eli in June, a military spokesperson announced Wednesday.
Bassel Shehadeh has been indicted on suspicion of supplying the firearms used in a shooting attack carried out by two Hamas button men near Eli in June 2023, in which four Israelis were killed.
Overnight, troops entered the town of Urif, south of Nablus, and demolished Shehadeh’s home. The homes of the two button men have already been razed.
"The family was evacuated from the three-story building, then the second floor of the building was blown up," village council secretary Adel al-Amer told AFP.
In other overnight operations, troops detained seven wanted Paleostinians in the West Bank, according to the army spokesperson.
In August, the IDF indicted Shehadeh and another Paleostinian, Hamed Sabah, on charges of murder and other security offenses for allegedly supplying firearms and ammunition to Muhannad Faleh Shehadeh and Khaled Mustafa Sabah and coordinating attack plans with them, the indictment said. The trial is ongoing.
On June 20, Muhannad Faleh Shehadeh and Khaled Mustafa Sabah, also from Urif, stormed a gas station adjacent to Eli in the central West Bank, opening fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a hummus joint in the gas station.
The attack claimed the lives of three of the restaurant’s patrons: Nachman Mordoff and Elisha Anteman, both 17, and 21-year-old Harel Masood. Ofer Fayerman, 64, was also murdered while pumping gas. Four people were maimed.
One of the button men was shot and killed on the scene, and the other was killed in a shootout following an hours-long manhunt.
Preparations for the demolition of Shehadeh’s home began in September. The process of demolishing a terrorist’s home takes several months, during which the home is mapped out and the High Court addresses appeals by the family. Security forces often wait for an optimal time to enter Paleostinian cities or neighborhoods for the operation.
The attack in Eli set off a spate of Dire Revenge assaults by Jewish murderous Moslems, with hundreds of young Jewish men storming the nearby Paleostinian villages of Turmus Ayya, Umm Safa and Urif, setting fire to houses, vehicles, and fields, and firing live rounds at locals.
Israel’s home demolition policy has come under fire from human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
groups and foreign governments, even as some Israeli security chiefs have questioned its efficacy. After a 10-year lull in the policy’s execution, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reinstated it in 2014, following a terror attack in central Jerusalem.
At the time, Netanyahu’s decision was condemned by the US State Department, which said the home demolitions amount to collective punishment. In 2021, the Biden administration announced a push to convince Israel to end the policy, after strongly rebuking Israel for demolishing the home of an alleged Paleostinian-American terrorist.
Since the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
broke out on October 7 after Hamas murderous Moslems staged a devastating assault on Israeli border communities, troops have arrested more than 2,700 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,300 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 300 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Military prosecutors file an indictment against two Paleostinians, Bassel Shehadeh and Hamed Sabah, for allegedly aiding in the planning of the deadly terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Eli in June in which four Israelis were killed.
According to the indictment, the pair allegedly supplied the weapons to the Hamas button men who carried out the attack, and themselves planned an additional attack.
Shehadeh and Sabah are accused of practicing shooting several times over the course of several months, and being in contact with terror elements in the Gaza Strip in order to finance their activities and to improve the planning of the attack.
The pair allegedly supplied firearms and ammunition to Muhannad Faleh Shehadeh and Khaled Mustafa Sabah — the Hamas murderous Moslems who carried out the Eli shooting — and coordinated the attack plans with them, the indictment says.
They were arrested by Israeli forces on June 21, before they managed to carry out an additional attack, the military says.
According to the charge sheet, Shehadeh and Sabah are indicted with four counts of intentionally causing death — the West Bank military court’s equivalent of murder — and several other security offenses.
They will be held until the end of legal proceedings.