This article is about the demolition of houses for military or punitive civil purposes. For the demolition of houses in the Palestinian Territories, see House demolition in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. For the demolition of buildings in general, see demolition.
Demolition of a house in Iraq containing a weapons cache
House demolition is primarily a military tactic which has been used in many conflicts for a variety of purposes. It has been employed as a scorched earth tactic to deprive the advancing enemy of food and shelter, or to wreck the enemy's economy and infrastructure. It has also been used for purposes of counter-insurgency and ethnic cleansing. Systematic house demolition has been a notable factor in a number of recent or ongoing conflicts including the Darfur conflict in Sudan, the Iraq War, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Vietnam War, and the Yugoslav wars.
The tactic has often been extremely controversial. Its use in warfare is governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention and other instruments of international law, and international war crimes courts have prosecuted the misuse of house demolition on a number of occasions as a violation of the laws of war. Historically, it has also been widely used by a variety of states and peoples as a civil punishment for criminal offences ranging from treason to public intoxication
Housedemolition is primarily a military tactic which has been used in many conflicts for a variety of purposes. It has been employed as a scorched earth...
demolitions can be classified as either administrative, punitive/dissuasive and as part of military operations. The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions...
reuse purposes. For small buildings, such as houses, that are only two or three stories high, demolition is a rather simple process. The building is pulled...
balloons were released before DeJesus's aunt began the demolition with a swing of a crane. The house has been completely blurred out on the street view of...
The Israeli Committee Against HouseDemolitions (ICAHD) is a group opposed to Israeli settlements, which describes itself as "an Israeli peace and human...
integrity and the constitutional rights of Oromo people, increasing mass housedemolition that belonged to Amhara ethnic group and to justify Oromization. The...
demand answers to demolition of Crooked House pub". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2023. "Crooked Housedemolition: Council statement". sstaffs.gov.uk....
The demolition of the Babri Masjid was carried out on 6 December 1992 by a large group of activists of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and allied organisations...
November 2011. Israel and the Occupied Territories Under the rubble: Housedemolition and destruction of land and property (PDF) (Report). Amnesty International...
but by explosives installed in the buildings in advance. Controlled demolition theories make up a major component of 9/11 conspiracy theories. Early...
Eckbo were also destroyed during the demolition "the nearly one-acre lot into one flat slab." The Zimmerman House was an early work by Ellwood, co-designed...
Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against HouseDemolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC)...
blocks. It also includes Chadwell House, Lees House, Soane House, Dorwell House and 51-67 Inville Road. Demolition of the existing blocks is programmed...
with hydraulic saw and mower attachments Forestry work Forestry mulching Demolition with hydraulic claw, cutter and breaker attachments Mining, especially...
initial work began on the demolition of Tayside House in 2011. The main demolition work was completed in July 2013. Tayside House was a purpose-built office...
against demolition was established in 1989, and consequently the number of demolitions declined. However, in subsequent periods of violence the house demolition...
modern metropolis. Whelan the Wrecker was by far the most successful demolition company in the period, and was responsible for almost all of these losses...
and scoops. A Goliath remote-piloted demolition charge being used in Russia in 1944 An IDF D9 demolishing a house in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada...
Saved from demolition, Anne Frank House. Retrieved 11 July 2014. Management Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Anne Frank House. Retrieved...
Adamo Demolition (Adamo Group) is a Detroit-based asbestos remediation and demolition company founded in 1964 that specializes in industrial projects...
In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure...
incidents where armed Palestinians barricaded themselves inside houses to prevent housedemolition and killed soldiers attempting to breach the entries, the...
Sunday Mail. Retrieved 7 March 2021. "Chitungwiza Municipality Halts HouseDemolition Exercise". New Zimbabwe. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2021....
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