QARAWAT HASAN: According to an army statement, Israeli forces destroyed the homes of two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday who is accused of killing a Jewish settler in April.
According to the army, it has demolished Yusef Aasi and Yehya Miri’s homes in Qarawat Bani Hasan, in the northern West Bank. They are accused of carrying out “a murderous shooting attack near the entrance to the city of Ariel, murdering the Israeli security guard Vyacheslav Golev.”
Israel is holding Aasi and Miri, who were detained one day after the attack on April 29. The Israeli military court, which has authority over offenses committed by Palestinians in a portion of the West Bank, an area that the Jewish state has controlled since 1967, has not yet heard their case.
According to the army statement, “the destruction took place after the Supreme Court rejected the plea from the terrorists’ relatives.”
