West Bank: Israel blows up building housing extended family of bombing suspect

Israel bombed an entire apartment building in the West Bank - home to more than 30 people - as a collective punishment because the extended family of a bus bombing suspect lived there, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.

The family of  Abdul Karim Sanoubar told Al Jazeera they were given two minutes notice to evacuate the building. 

Sanoubar, 30, is currently detained in Israel on allegations that he conspired to blow up parked buses in Bat Yam Tel Aviv in February. Nobody was killed or injured in the attack.

However, despite Sanoubar not being convicted of the crime, Israel targeted the home of his extended family members in Nablus. 

In addition, the Israeli army informed the family that their former home has been 'confiscated', meaning that is now illegal for them to return to it or rebuild it. 

Sanoubar’s uncle, Moayed, condemned the destruction as an “act of terrorism” against his family and others who “have nothing to do with any crime,” he told Al Jazeera.

“We’re not the terrorists; they are. This is completely unjust.”