georgephillip
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Or even families of those suspected of killing Israelis as the events of last summer proved once again:Or the bizarre, barbaric practice of blowing up the homes of the families of Palestinians who kill Israelis.
"Withholding evidence in its possession suggesting that the teens had been killed immediately until 1 July,[115][148][149] Israel launched Operation Brother's Keeper, a large-scale crackdown of what it called Hamas's terrorist infrastructure and personnel in the West Bank,[150] ostensibly aimed at securing the release of the kidnapped teenagers.
"10 Palestinians were killed in numerous raids and clashes,[151][152][153][154][155] and between 350 and 600 Palestinians,[134][151][156][157] including nearly all of Hamas's West Bank leaders,[158][159][160] were arrested.[161][162][163]
"Among those arrested were many people who had only recently been freed under the terms of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange.[164]
"Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner defended the arrests, stating that Hamas members had carried out 60 abduction attempts on Israelis in the West Bank 'in the last year and a half', and that 'Hamas does not need to give a direct order.'[165]
"The arrests yielded no information about the abduction.[115]
"Amnesty International has stated that certain aspects of the operation amounted to collective punishment,[166] and B'tselem said in a press release that the actions have caused 'disproportionate harm to the basic rights of Palestinians'"
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Israel's actions also served as a useful excuse to launch its latest version of "mowing the lawn" in Gaza last summer.