12 July 2004
According to United Nations figures, less than 600 of the 10,000 houses demolished since the occupation began in 1967 involved security suspects. The rest — 94 percent — were simply houses of ordinary people who were in Israel’s way.
-- Dismantling the Fortresses of Fear by Jeff Halper, coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
(Photos: Top - A Palestinian woman cries holding family picture in front of the her house, after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers in al Brazil at the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, May 21, 2004. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic.
Bottom: A Palestinian boy cries in the rubble of his family house after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers during a raid in al Brazil, at the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip, May 21, 2004. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem)
