Israeli occupation soldiers demolished a West Bank home where a female resistance bomber had lived and shut down three military liaison offices, forcing out the Palestinian police officers and taking their weapons, the occupation army and Palestinian officials said. In the Beit Wazzin village near Nablus, occupation troops used explosives on Friday to demolish the one-story home of Darin Abu Aisheh, a resistance bomber who blew herself up at an Israeli occupation army checkpoint in February and wounded three policemen. Six of her relatives were left homeless.

Israel routinely demolishes the homes of suspected Palestinian activists and resistance bombers, believing that by punishing their relatives, other would-be attackers will be deterred. Palestinians say the demolitions violate international law and are a form of collective punishment.

On Feb. 27, 2002, Aisheh set off explosives inside a car, killing herself and wounding three policemen at a highway checkpoint. Four women were among the 92 resistance bombers that have struck Israelis since fighting began in September 2000.

In the West Bank towns of Tulkarem, Qalqilya and Nablus, Israel closed military liaison offices, one of the last remnants of a 1993 interim peace agreement that set up cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces.

Occupation soldiers forced out the police officers who were in the buildings and took their weapons, said the Palestinian governor of Tulkarem, Izzedine Sharif.

Since a fighting began more than two years, Israel has shut down military liaison offices in all the main West Bank towns and cities, except for Jericho.

An occupation army spokesman said the offices were closed because there is no longer any security cooperation and it poses a security risk to have armed Palestinians in the offices.

The spokesman cited a shooting in September 2000 of a soldier by a Palestinian policeman during a joint patrol in the Qalqilya.

In the past six months, Israel has also reoccupied every major West Bank population center except Jericho. Occupation soldiers enforce curfews and often carry out sweeps for suspected activists.

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A Palestinian man scuffles with an Israeli occupation soldier trying to prevent him from walking through an area under curfew while others, background, wait for their identities to be checked in the West Bank town of Hebron on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)