(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff and Herb Keinon - The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha, on Tuesday issued a statement calling on Israel to "end its punitive demolition of Palestinian homes." Farha has not commented on the hundreds of homes Egypt has destroyed along the Gaza border in Rafah in the last month to prevent Hamas from digging smuggling tunnels. On Nov. 19, Israel destroyed the Jerusalem home of Abd al-Rahman al-Shaludi, who killed a 22-year-old woman and a three-month-old infant by ramming his car into them at a light rail station. Israel's mission to the UN in Geneva responded Thursday: "We regret that, despite the escalating trend of family evacuations and house demolitions throughout the entire Middle East region, the special rapporteur on adequate housing has never commented on the issue before, but deemed it necessary to make a statement regretting the demolition of the house of a terrorist who killed in cold blood a three-month-old baby, a young woman, and injured six others."
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