NABLUS: Israeli occupation forces last night punitively destroyed two family homes in the village of Urif, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
The forces blew up the house of the family of Hamed Kayed Sabbah, a Palestinian in Israeli imprisonment, and demolished the house of the family of Ziad Jibril Safadi–another detainee–in the village, the sources said.
According to the sources, a large contingent of the Israeli military, accompanied by a bulldozer, stormed the village in the late night hours. The forces surrounded the family home of the detained Sabbah, forcibly evacuated the family, along with the residents of adjacent homes, before blowing up the dwelling located on the second floor of an old three-story building housing four families totaling 16 individuals.
Subsequently, the Israeli occupation forces proceeded to demolish the home of the detained Ziad Jibril Safadi.
The Israeli occupation forces also arrested three Palestinians during the raid into the
village.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA
Amman: Minister of Government Communications, Muhannad Mubaideen, offered his condolences to the director of Al Jazeera’s office in Amman, Hassan Shobaki, over the martyrdom of Samer Abu Daqqa, a cameraman for the channel, who was attacked by the Israeli occupation forces on Friday.
Mubaideen, who is also the spokesperson of the government, condemned during a phone call with Shobaki the targeting of Journalist, Wael Dahdoh, who was injured due to an Israeli raid.
He stressed his condemnation of the continued targeting of journalists in Gaza, which he believed was an attempt to obstruct the reporting of facts and conceal the murders committed by the Israeli killing machine against the Gaza press.
Source: Jordan News Agency