Nablus: The Israeli Army early on August 4 blew up eight houses in the West Bank belonging to families of Palestinians who carried out anti-Israel attacks, sources close to the families said.

There was no immediate confirmation from the Israeli Army.

In the village of Taluza, North of Nablus, the Army dynamited the house of the family of Mashour Hasaideh, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. He carried out a suicide bomb attack in west Jerusalem on March 21 in which three people died.

In the village of Tel, South of Nablus, the Army destroyed the house of the family of Assem Rihan, a member of the armed wing of Hamas, who died in a suicide bomb attack on an Israeli bus near the settlement of Emmanuel on the West Bank on December 12 last year, in which eight Israelis were killed.

His father and three of his brothers were also arrested by the Army, the sources said.

In Hebron, in the South of the West Bank, two other houses were blown up, belonging to the families of two members of Hamas, Tarek Doufish et Fahdi al-Douek, responsible for an attack on the Adora settlement in which four Israelis were killed on April 27.

Details of the remaining four houses were not immediately available.