Nablus, occupied West Bank – The Sanoubar family say the Israeli soldiers only gave them two minutes to leave their homes. Then, the apartment block the extended family lived in was demolished.The explosion in Nablus on Tuesday shook the area as huge clouds of dust and smoke billowed out of the building’s floors.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe home belonged to the extended family of Abdul Karim Sanoubar, a 30-year-old bombing suspect currently detained in Israel. More than 30 people lived in the apartment building, all punished collectively for the alleged actions of Sanoubar.‘They did this to frighten us’Sanoubar, a high-profile prisoner who was arrested in July this year, is notorious among Israeli authorities for evading their capture for five months after being accused of conspiring to perpetrate bus bombings in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv in February.No one was injured or killed in the incident, as the explosives went off while the buses were parked.Sanoubar was eventually captured after a two-day manhunt in Nablus, in which Israeli forces stormed hospitals and residential buildings near Sanoubar’s family home.After the demolition, Sanoubar’s uncle, Moayed, condemned Israel’s destruction of a building “when the people inside have nothing to do with any crime” as an “act of terrorism” against his family.“We’re not the terrorists; they are,” he told Al Jazeera. “This is completely unjust.”Sanoubar’s father, Amer, 61, said the destruction of his home was the latest act in an onslaught of “collective punishment” imposed on his family over his son’s alleged crimes. Advertisement “ …
