IDF Demolishes Home of Terrorist Who Murdered Israeli Rabbi

Jerusalem, 2 November, 2020 (TPS) -- The IDF on Monday morning demolished the home of the terrorist who murdered Rabbi Shai Ohayon in August.

IDF forces arrived at the village of Rujib, in the Shechem (Nablus) area, and demolished the house of the terrorist Khalil ‘Abd al-Khalq Muhammad Dweikat.

Arab rioters threw rocks and bottles filled with paint at IDF forces. There were no Israeli casualties.

Ohayon, 39 of Petah Tikva and a father of four, sustained multiple stab wounds to his upper body when getting off a bus near the Segula Junction in Petah Tikva. He subsequently died of his wounds.

The terrorist, Dweikat, was subdued by a passerby and then arrested by the police.

The demolitions of terrorists’ homes are meant to serve as deterrence for potential terrorists plotting future attacks.

The demolition was carried out after the High Court of Justice in October rejected a petition against the demolition order.

However, the High Court has recently accepted several petitions from terrorists’ families on the issue and have canceled demolition orders for terrorists’ homes.

The Im Tirzu Zionist organization panned the demotion as “too little too late. The murder of the rabbi would not have happened if the judges of the High Court had stopped repeatedly trampling on the security policy of the State of Israel.”

“Potential terrorists see how High Court judges reduce house demolitions, prevent the expulsion of terrorists and the rescinding of their residency, and say to themselves that the price of murdering Israelis does not justify the cancellation of the attack,” the organization said.

“This is how it is when politicians from the [extreme-left] Meretz party in robes sit in the High Court,” they concluded.