The High Court of Justice rejects a petition seeking to prevent the planned demolition of the home of Fadi al-Qadr, the perpetrator of a deadly terrorist attack last month.
Four soldiers were killed and 17 were injured in the car-ramming attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem when a terrorist rammed his truck into a group of people, the majority of them army cadets, who were touring the capital.
The scene of a truck-ramming attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of East Jerusalem on January 8, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
Al-Qadr, 28, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, was shot dead at the scene.
While noting the hardship that the move will cause the family, judges accepted the state’s position that the order was legal and said there was significant legal precedent for it to be carried out.
Nonetheless, the state was instructed to give the family at least 10 days in order to “organize their belongings” and leave the property.
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