EXTENSIVE COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT BY ISRAEL IN THE AFTERMATH OF TEL AVIV SHOOTING

Idea of individual guilt exists for Israel's regime and its 'judicial' system only when it comes to the guilt of it's own majority ethnic-religious group; when it comes to occupied Palestinians, the "guilt" is not restricted to those who have done something, but to their family, home town and their entire nation.

We are speaking of collective punishment, which is a human rights violation and a war crime. Naturally, because of the protection of the so-called 'West', Israel can ignore such things as international law, laws of war and even basic morality which is expected from an occupier power.

So, Israel is committing large-scale collective punishment, when it already has the alleged shooters Muhammad Ahmad Moussa Makhamreh and Khalid Muhammad Moussa Makhamreh under arrest.

But instead of just acting in the manner of what would be normal for other states, Israel's regime doesn't restrict its actions on normal, legal judicial response to this kind of act.

Here we have collected examples of the planned acts of collective punishment by Israel's regime after yesterday's shooting:

- Israel has sealed Yatta, the home town of the accused youth, restricting movement from and to the town. Only people on "humanitarian" and "medical" cases are allowed to exit or enter the town.

- Israel has arrested at least two people from Yatta town. We know that among those kidnapped from Hebron, Surif and Yatta were: Mohammad Ibrahim Makhamra(22), Ezzeddin Ghaleb al-Hour(22)m Ibrahim Hammad Zein, and Morad Sa’di al-Qawasmi(21).

- Israel's notoriously racist Deputy 'Defense' Minister Eli Ben Dahan threatens that "Life will not carry on as usual" in Yatta.

- Israel plans to destroy the Yatta town home of the parents of one of the two youths accused of the shooting.

- Israel has frozen the permits of 83 000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank from entering the occupied East Jerusalem and Palestine 1948.

- Israel ends all co-ordination with Palestinian authorities in the besieged Gaza Strip.

- Israel has frozen the monthly visits of approximately 200 elderly people from Gaza to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East.

- Israel's new Moldovan 'Defense Minister' Avigdor Lieberman has stopped the handing over of bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation back to their families.

- In a decision made public hours before the shooting, but also as an act of collective punishment, Israel will ban the funerals of Palestinians from East Jerusalem whom it has killed into their home neighbourhoods and villages. Instead they will be buried on places selected by the Israeli occupation.

SOURCES:

83,000 Palestinian Entrance Permits to East Jerusalem Frozen by Israel

http://imemc.org/article/83000-palestinian-entrance-permits-to-east-jerusalem-frozen-by-israel/

Tel Aviv Shooting: 4 Israelis Killed

http://imemc.org/article/tel-aviv-shooting-4-israelis-killed/

Israel cancels all permits from the Gaza Strip to Al-Aqsa during Ramadan

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771820

Israeli Army Kidnaps Eleven Palestinians In The West Bank

http://imemc.org/article/israeli-army-kidnaps-ten-palestinians-in-the-west-bank/

Israeli Defense Minister halts the return of all Palestinian bodies following attack in Tel Aviv

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771818

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians, including slain Fatah leader's sons, in overnight raids

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771811

Israeli forces hold 100 Palestinian high school students at checkpoint in Yatta

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771816

Israel freezes 83,000 Palestinians' entrance permits to East Jerusalem, Israel

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771812

Israeli officials threaten harsh response in wake of deadly Tel Aviv attack

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771814

Israeli police to ban burial of Jerusalemite martyrs in their areas

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=79016

Israeli police: following incitement, Palestinian attackers not to be buried in their villages

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771804