Nablus / PNN /
Israeli occupation forces have blown up the home of a Palestinian resistance fighter killed after carrying out an operation against intruding Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media boasted while broadcasting video images of the criminal destruction.
Israeli troops stormed the Palestinian Askar refugee camp, east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, to raze the home of Abdel Fattah Hussein KharoushaIn using explosives in the early hours of Tuesday while brutally dispersing raging protests in the area using tear gas and live gunfire.
The Israeli military operation sparked clashes between local Palestinians and the regime's troops, leaving scores of protesters injured.
According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, 58 Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties due to inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli troops, while two others were wounded by bullet fragments.
Israel has alleged that Kharousha killed two intruding Zionist settlers in an attack in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26 following persisting settler attacks and atrocities in the area against local Palestinians.
Kharousha fled the scene after executing the two Israeli settlers, but was later killed by Israeli forces after a week of extensive surveillance and chase operations.
The regime's authorities also arrested Kharousha's three sons, accusing them of helping their father in the execution operation. Israeli courts also issued a demolition order to raze the home of one of the three sons.
Israel regularly destroys the homes of Palestinians accused of retaliatory attacks on Israeli settlers -- who routinely attack and abuse the native population -- in an act of collective punishment condemned by international human rights groups.
More than 600,000 Zionist Jews have immigrated to occupied Palestine from the US and other countries to live in over 230 illegally-built settlements that have been erected since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
