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IDF says will demolish home of Palestinian terrorist who killed 2 in stabbing-ramming rampage
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Aviv Maor (left) and Shimshon Mordechai, who were killed in a terror attack in northern Israel on December 26, 2025. (Courtesy)
The Israel Defense Forces announces that the home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed two people in a stabbing and car-ramming rampage last month in northern Israel is slated for demolition.
In the attack, Ahmed al-Rub, a Palestinian from Qabatiya, murdered 68-year-old Shimshon Mordechai and 19-year-old Aviv Maor on a highway near Beit She’an.
As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks. An appeal can be submitted, but such attempts rarely succeed.
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 call it collective punishment.
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