Rafah residents flee their homes

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http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=7387

Hundreds of Palestinians are abandoning their houses along the Philadelphi route in Gaza out of fear their homes will be destroyed after an appeal against the IDF demolishing houses was rejected by the Supreme Court

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"Hundreds of residents from block “O” in the Kashta neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, two neighborhoods away from the Philadelphi route, are packing up their belongings and looking for an alternative place to live. The residents fear their houses will be destroyed after Sunday’s appeal to the Supreme Court against IDF demolishing houses in Gaza was rejected.

Chief of Staff Moshe (Bugi) Yaalon says that the IDF will likely be demolishing hundreds of houses in Rafah, following the Supreme Court's decision to allow the measure. Yaalon added that the army has already marked structures to be torn down.

The High Court of Justice on Sunday rejected a petition filed by residents of the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who asked the court to forbid the IDF from razing Palestinian homes in the Strip. The court ruled that the method is acceptable because of security needs."

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"During the weekend, Supreme Court Justice, Yehoshua Matza, ordered a temporary ban on the IDF from demolishing Palestinian houses in the Gaza Strip. The houses in question were not used by Palestinian snipers against Israelis, but were houses the IDF wants removed for, among other reasons, widening the Philadelphi route where five soldiers were killed on Wednesday."