Occupation soldiers destroyed the homes of two Palestinian resistance men in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army said Wednesday. In a Nablus-area village in the West Bank, occupation troops demolished the home of a resistance bomber from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group affiliated with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, who carried out an attack in June on an Israeli restaurant that killed one person.

In the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, occupation forces blew up the home of Yassin Agha, a Hamas member killed earlier in December, the occupation army said. At least 25 people were left homeless, Palestinian officials said.

The occupation army demolishes the homes of resistance men in what it describes as an attempt to deter Palestinians from attacking Israelis. Palestinians condemn the measure.

Separately, occupation soldiers were reported to have beaten and shaved the heads of two Palestinian civilians in the West Bank city of Hebron in December.

At the same time, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a report Monday accusing four occupation soldiers of entering a barber shop in Hebron on Dec. 3 and beating the owner and four customers.

The report also said that when Palestinian youths outside began throwing stones at the occupation soldiers, the troops took cover behind the customers and opened fire.

Israeli occupation troop beat a Palestinian civilian to death in Hebron on Monday.

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Palestinians look at the remains of a demolished house in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip Wednesday Jan. 1, 2003. (AP Photo / Kahlil Hamra )