Israeli Border Police start fire, destroy family’s home with tear gas grenade
by alethoCPTnet | January 3, 2013
The ruins after the fire was extinguished
AL-KHALIL
(HEBRON) - On 26 December 2013, while CPTers were doing their routine
monitoring of the school patrol at the Qitoun checkpoint, schoolboys
threw several volleys of stones at the checkpoint for about a minute.
Border police responded by throwing a sound bomb and then firing a
teargas grenade.
The
grenade entered the second-story window of the Al-Karaky family’s
three-room apartment. They were drinking coffee when it landed in their
living room and fled the house. The canister started a fire inside the
house after the family left.
Everything
in the small apartment—including numerous books, among them holy books
such as the Qur’an—was burned or ruined by water from Hebron’s Municipal
Fire Department, which arrived promptly to put the blaze out.
This
incident is not the first time objects have come through the window of
the Al-Karaky home, when boys have thrown stones at the checkpoint and
border police have responded by firing back. “We’re always trapped
between the stones and what the soldiers shoot,” a family member told a
CPTer. They never expected, however, that these almost routine exchanges
would result in the four people who lived there losing everything.
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