IDF said to demolish home of Palestinian terrorist who carried out deadly Jerusalem shooting

Israeli forces reportedly demolish the house of one of two Palestinians who carried out a shooting terror attack in Jerusalem earlier this month that killed six people.

The two-story house of Muthanna Amro was blown up at dawn in the town of Al-Qubaybah in the West Bank, town mayor Nafiz Hamouda tells AFP.

The IDF, when contacted, says it is looking into the report.

Hamouda says the military had notified residents 10 days earlier of its intention to demolish the property.

“Last night they came, and at dawn today the house was blown up,” he says.

The blast also caused significant damage to four or five neighboring houses, Hamouda says.

As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks. Israeli officials have said the policy is intended to dissuade Palestinians from planning terror attacks, as doing so will harm their extended families’ livelihood. Critics have called it collective punishment.

Six people were murdered and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists opened fire on vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction on September 6. A soldier and a number of civilians who were present at the scene fired at the terrorists and killed them.

لحظة تفجير جيش الاحتلال منزل الشهيد مثنى عمرو احد منفذي عملية القدس في بلدة لقبيبة قضاء القدس المحتلة pic.twitter.com/vinwNR5qhJ

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