Israel demolishes family home near Ramallah in latest West Bank raid

Israeli occupation soldiers carried out a pre-dawn demolition in the village of Deir Qadis, west of Ramallah, intensifying their campaign of home destruction across the occupied West Bank.

Local sources told Wafa that Israeli soldiers, backed by a military bulldozer, raid the village and tear down the home of Nader al-Khawaja, leaving a large family displaced.

The demolished house has two storeys and sheltered more than 10 people. Residents say the family had lived there for around 15 years before Israeli forces reduced it to rubble.

The incident forms part of a wider pattern of punitive demolitions carried out by Israel, which rights groups describe as collective punishment under international law.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli occupation bulldozers also destroyed a Palestinian home in the town of Rafat, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, extending the wave of demolitions to another area of the West Bank.