High Court okays home demolition of Palestinian who killed Israeli soldier

The High Court of Justice allows the Israel Defense Forces to demolish the home of a Palestinian man under indictment for killing an Israeli soldier.

Rejecting a petition from Islam Yousef Abu Hamid’s family against a demolition order issued by the IDF in September, the court rules the entire home may be destroyed and not just the 2nd and 4th floors of the building where the assailant lived.

Hamid killed Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky, a member of the elite Duvdevan unit, by dropping a marble slab on the top of his head from a neighboring home during an IDF raid in the al-Am’ari refugee camp in Ramallah.

Lubarsky’s father praises the court ruling.

“The decision is a victory for sanity. We expect only more thing — imposing the death penalty on the terrorist who murdered Ronen,” the Kan public broadcaster quotes him saying.