WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the Zionist regime’s demolition of Palestinian homes and displacing women and children is "a war crime” that should be punished under international law.
In a press release on Monday, Hamas lambasted as "a war crime” the occupying regime’s persisting campaign of demolishing Palestinian homes in the occupied East al-Quds and displacing their occupants, including women and children.
The resistance movement said the action is "punishable under international law, which stipulates the provision of protection and assistance for the population under occupation,” the Palestinian Information Center reported.
The Zionist regime’s "policy of emptying al-Quds of its people and imposing Judaization on the city will fail, and al-Quds will remain the capital of Palestine, bearing its Arab and Islamic identity,” the resistance movement stressed.
The occupying regime has frequently demolished Palestinian homes, while at the same time expanded its settlements for Zionists in occupied Palestinian territories, which are all illegal under international law.
The Israeli rights group B’Tselem said last month that the regime had demolished 729 Palestinian buildings in 2020 on the pretext of lacking construction permits.