Punitive family-home demolition dates back to the Haganah militia in 1947

Evidence

Hamas leaders have been biblically “marked for death” in the shockingly honest, if ironic, phrasing of then-prime minister Sharon. And Palestinian families have been made to watch the demolition of their homes, in some cases whole apartment buildings, either where the buildings stand in the line of the Wall’s progression or when a family member or building resident has been identified as a terrorist, the latter a practice of the Jewish Haganah (underground militia) dating back at least to late 1947. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 631