Two terrorists' houses destroyed
Israeli security forces demolished the house of Raed Khalil who stabbed two people to death in the Panorama building in Tel Aviv, and the house of Mohammad Harub who shot and killed an Israeli, an American, and a Palestinian at Alon Shvut Junction.
The houses of two terrorists who killed a total of five people and who carried out their attacks on the same day last November were demolished by Israeli security forces in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The terrorists are Raed Khalil, who killed two people in the Panorama building in Tel Aviv, and Mohammad Abed al Basset Harub, who shot and killed three people at the Alon Shvut junction as they were sitting in traffic.
Israeli combat engineers, together with Border Police soldiers destroyed the houses located in the villages of Dura and Deir Samat, both located in the Hebron area.
The two terrorists are responsible for one of the toughest days of the recent terror wave. These two separate attacks killed five people- three Israelis, an American, and a Palestinian. They were both arrested uninjured.
Khalil, who had an Israeli entry permit, moved into the Panorama building to live with his brother four days before he carried out his attack. According to transcripts from his interrogation, he decided to murder Jews in the hope that he would be killed by Israeli security personnel and become a martyr.
He went to a nearby kabab restaurant and stole a knife, putting it in his jacket pocket. Khalil then went to the synagogue attached to the building in an attempt to find Jews to stab, and killed two people - Aharon Yesiav, 32, from Holon, and Reuven Aviram, 51, from Ramla.
Meanwhile, Harub drove his car to the Alon Shvut junction, saw the traffic which had built up there, got out of his car with an Uzi submachine gun, and started firing at cars.
He killed three in the attack - Ya'akov Don, 49, from Alon Shvut, Palestinian Shadi Arafa, and Ezra Shwartz, 18, from from Massachusetts, who was in Israel studying at a seminary. Another five people, including American citizens, were wounded. The terrorist was tackled and then arrested.
