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Israel demolishes home of Palestinian who killed 3 Israelis
Published in Albawaba on 16 - 08 - 2017

Jerusalem - Israeli forces demolished the home on Wednesday of a Palestinian who fatally stabbed three Jewish residents of a nearby settlement as tensions soared last month over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
The military confirmed the demolition in the village of Kobar in the occupied West Bank.
Residents said that army vehicles and bulldozers entered the area north of Ramallah around 3:00 am (0000 GMT) and surrounded the two-story house, one floor of which was still under construction.
In recent weeks, Israeli authorities also arrested the father, mother and three brothers of the 19-year-old attacker, Omar Al-Abed, according to villagers.
The family members are suspected of having known of Abed's plans to carry out the attack in the nearby Israeli settlement of Neve Tsuf, also known as Halamish, and of failing to prevent it, Israeli media reported.
The Israeli army said the assailant had spoken of Al-Aqsa and of dying as a martyr in a Facebook post.
He was shot while carrying out the attack and later arrested.
The July 21 attack came with tensions high over the highly sensitive mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Violence erupted in and around the compound last month after three Arab Israelis shot dead two policemen on July 14 before being killed by security forces.
Israel responded to the July 14 deadly shootings by installing metal detectors at the entrance to the holy site, used as a staging point for the attack.
For nearly two weeks, worshippers refused to submit to the checks and held mass prayers in surrounding streets.
Ensuing protests and clashes left seven Palestinians dead and the stabbings of the Israelis at the settlement was carried out at the height of the tensions. The crisis abated when Israel removed the detectors.
The Jerusalem holy site, which includes the revered Al-Aqsa mosque and the golden-topped Dome of the Rock, is the third-holiest in Islam and the most sacred for Jews.
Central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the compound is located in east Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967 and later annexed in a move never recognized by the international community.
Palestinians fear Israel will gradually seek to assert further control over it, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly he is committed to the status quo.
Israel regularly demolishes the homes of Palestinian attackers, calling it a deterrent against future violence.
However, human rights groups say it amounts to collective punishment, with family members forced to suffer for the acts of relatives.


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