The IDF’s Central Command chief has signed four demolition orders for the homes of four terrorists involved in the murder of Israelis over the past year, the military announced on Tuesday.
On Monday, confiscation and demolition orders were delivered to the homes of four terrorists who were involved in three different shooting attacks in which both soldiers and civilians were murdered.
The orders were delivered to the homes of Muhammad Nazal and Muhammad Zakharna in Kabatiya in the Jenin area.
The two carried out a shooting attack on January 6, 2025, at two locations. In the attack, Rachel Cohen, 73, Aliza Reiss, 70, and Israel Police St.-Sgt.-Maj. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, 35, were killed.
Another confiscation and demolition order was delivered to the home of Muhammad Dragma in the West Bank city of Tubas.
On February 4, 2025, Dragma fired at IDF soldiers in Tayasir, north of the Jordan Valley, killing Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Avraham Tzvi Tzvika Friedman, 43, and IDF reservist, Warr. Ofc. Ofer Yung.
IDF gives families option to submit appeal against demolitions
An additional order was delivered to the home of Waal Khalouh, also in the Kabatiya area of the West Bank. On August 11, 2024, he shot and killed Yonatan Deutsch at the Mehola Junction in the Jordan Valley.
The military said that the families of the terrorists have the option to submit an appeal against the demolition orders.