"Israelis" call for Palestinian hero’s home to be razed

Source: AFP, 07-07-2008

OCCUPIED 'JERUSALEM' (AL-QUDS): Around 30 right-wing 'Israelis' staged a demonstration at the East 'Jerusalem' (al-Quds) home of a Palestinian man who killed three people in a heroic act with a payloader last week to demand its destruction. "Right here, right now, destroy this house," they chanted as they gathered in the Palestinian village of Sur Baher outside the house of Hossam Dwayyat, 30, who was shot dead Wednesday after ploughing through a busy 'Jerusalem' street.

Another 45 settlers were wounded in the attack in which Dwayyat smashed an earthmover into two buses, overturning one, and crushed several cars. The protest in Occupied East 'Jerusalem' was held without incident as police deployed in force around the home, a police official said.

'Israeli' authorities, including Premier Ehud Olmert, have mulled destroying the house, even though a previous military inquiry found the practice was ineffective in deterring militant attacks. 'Israeli' War Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army Friday to prepare to raze the house, a War Ministry official said, though he did not specify whether the order had actually been given.