Israel destroyed the home of a Palestinian terrorist murderer and rapist

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops, along with Border Guard and Civil Administration forces, destroyed two homes belonging to the family of Palestinian terrorist Arafat Irfaiya in the West Bank city of Hebron.

On February 7, Irfaiya raped and murdered a young Israeli woman in a forest near Jerusalem.

The Supreme Court gave the green light to the state’s request to demolish two of Irfaiya’s apartments, one of which was used by her parents.

The Palestinian news agency Quds News reported that soldiers destroyed a three-story building belonging to Irfaiya in Hebron.

During the operation, there were minor skirmishes between Palestinians in the area and Israeli troops, Israeli state radio station Kan reported.

Irfaiya, 29, was charged with rape and murder in connection with a terrorist attack for the killing of 19-year-old Ansbacher, resident of the settlement of Tekoa in Judea (southern West Bank).

Irfaiya, who described himself as a Hamas sympathizer, had entered Israel illegally from the West Bank armed with a knife.

“He met Ansbacher and decided to murder her because she was Jewish,” the indictment states. “He attacked Ori with brutal cruelty and although she tried to defend herself, he overpowered her and stabbed her several times with a knife, causing her death.”

Ansbacher was volunteering at a youth center in the capital and had been walking in the forest of Ein Yael, south of Jerusalem, where she met Irfaiya by chance.

DNA evidence and Irfaiya’s own testimony incriminate him with the crime. Irfaya is awaiting trial.

The case sparked widespread outrage in the country and prompted the government to implement a law recently passed by the Knesset, which allows Israel to deduct from the taxes and customs duties collected by the Jewish state for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority the amount used by the Palestinian administration in Ramallah to pay handsome salaries to terrorists and their families imprisoned in Israel.