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Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
Hardigan, Richard
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/22/ethnic-cleansing-in-palestine-home-demolitions-on-the-rise/Date Written: 2016-04-22 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19247 According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967, resulting in the homelessness and suffering of untold numbers of people. There is little ambiguity about the morality of this form of ethnic cleansing, and even most Israeli legal scholars agree that it is in contravention of international law. Subject Headings |