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The order was handed down during an emergency session on Thursday to discuss several violent incidents that have hit the city, the Times of Israel reports, citing Israel Radio.
In February 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Defense ordered an end to the demolition of houses unless there was "an extreme change in circumstances." That same year, an Israeli Army study found there was no conclusive evidence the practice deterred terrorism. The ministry at the time argued home demolitions were in fact counterproductive and could potentially incite more violence.
The practice is banned under the Geneva Convention unless “such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations."
Rights groups have long criticized the practice as an illegal form of collective punishment.
Meanwhile, on Friday Netanyahu lashed out at critics who said building over the green line – which separates West and East Jerusalem – undermined the peace process.
“Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and it is not a settlement,” the Jerusalem Post cites Netanyahu as saying during a meeting with the new European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini.
The Israeli PM said that the neighborhoods where Jews were living and building “have been in the hands of Israeli governments for the last 50 years.”
He continued that any such neighborhoods would remain a part of Israel under any peace arrangement, rejecting as “false” any claim that settlement construction lies at the root of the ongoing conflict.
Rights groups have long criticized the practice as an illegal form of collective punishment.
re·pri·sal (r-przl)
n.
1. Retaliation for an injury with the intent of inflicting at least as much injury in return.
2. Forcible seizure of an enemy's goods or subjects in retaliation for injuries inflicted.
3. The practice of using political or military force without actually resorting to war.
Not too sure where you stand to be honest, but it's the Palestinians who are retaliating to 60+ years of indignation, not the other way around.
Settlers run over ten times the amount of Palestinians. But when a Palestinian runs over an Israeli he's a terrorist and his home should be destroyed.