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Israeli authorities overnight demolished the home of a Palestinian killed after fatally stabbing a Jewish settler in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli army and Palestinian sources said on Thursday.
Israel regularly demolishes Palestinian attackers’ homes in a bid to deter violence, but human rights activists say it amounts to collective punishment, forcing relatives to suffer for the acts of others.
Palestinians threw stones at soldiers who arrived to demolish the apartment of Ihab Maswada, while the soldiers fired stun grenades, an AFP journalist reported.
No one was in the apartment at the time. Palestinian media reported that Israeli forces forced family members to leave. Maswada stabbed Genadi Kaufman, 41, on December 7 before being shot dead by Israeli forces. Kaufman later died of his wounds. The incident occurred near the flashpoint holy site known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque. A wave of violence since October has left 200 Palestinians and 28 Israelis dead.