’Collective punishment’ targets Palestinians - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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Jabal al-Mukaber, Jerusalem - Mohammad Abu Jamal sits underneath a tattered tarp with water dripping through much of it. Gathered around him are neighbours and relatives who had been by his side ever since the news broke that his son and nephew carried out a deadly attack on a synagogue in the western part of the city on November 18.
Oday and Ghassan Abu Jamal, cousins from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukaber, were shot dead after they killed four Israeli worshippers and a policeman.
Since then, the family has been subject to what they and rights groups are calling a series of collective punishment, the latest of which was the revocation of the residency rights of Ghassan’s widow.
“This is the worst government that Israel has seen since its creation,” Mohammad, 70, said. "Ghassan was killed, he received his punishment. But why the collective punishment? Why must all this family, including these three kids, who keep asking me where their dad is, suffer?”