APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jenin- 08 March. Smoke billows from the house of a Palestinian after it was demolished by Israeli security forces, in the village of Silat al-Harithiya in the West Bank city of Jenin.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Jenin- 08 March. Smoke billows from the house of a Palestinian after it was demolished by Israeli security forces, in the village of Silat al-Harithiya in the West Bank city of Jenin. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Ahmed Jaradat. 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Mayar Jaradat, daughter of the prisoner Mahmoud Jaradat. STORYLINE: Israeli forces Tuesday morning razed the family houses of two prisoners in Silat ad-Dhahr town, northwest of Jenin, according to local and security sources. A sizable military force, comprising over 150 military vehicles, including armored bulldozers, barged its way into the northern West Bank town from different directions before midnight to demolish the family houses of Mohammad Jaradat as well as Gheith and Omar Jaradat, currently in Israeli custody. The Jaradats are accused of killing an Israeli settler in a shooting attack near the evacuated colonial settlement outpost of Homesh, north of Nablus, in mid December. Dozens of heavily-armed soldiers cordoned off the town and were deployed throughout its streets and alleys, took measurements of the properties of the prisoner’s families before detonating and destroying them. During ensuing confrontations, the soldiers opened fire towards the town residents, injuring at least one with a live round in the hand and seven others with rubber-coated steel bullets. Several other protestors sustained injures from concussion grenade shrapnel, and dozens others suffocated from the effects of tear gas inhalation. Still, another sustained injuries after being run over by a military vehicle. The soldiers prevented ambulances from entering the town to treat and transport the injured as well as journalists from covering the unfolding events. Israeli military claimed that a Palestinian purportedly rammed
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