Feces, urine and used condoms – these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault on the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, south of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, last month.
Fidaa Abu Zeina’s home was one of them. Abu Zeina, 46, his wife and three children were forced out at gunpoint on 2 February, the first day of the assault. Given their home’s location at the entrance to the camp, theirs was the first case of expulsion.
Using his home as a military outpost, soldiers lived, slept and ate in Abu Zeina’s house for 11 days, during which they vandalized it beyond recognition, leaving a stench of urine, and feces and used condoms on the floors and in the closets. ….more
