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| Israel tears down attacker's home | Israel tears down attacker's home |
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| Israeli police have demolished the home of a Palestinian man who killed three Israelis with a bulldozer. | Israeli police have demolished the home of a Palestinian man who killed three Israelis with a bulldozer. |
| The house on the outskirts of East Jerusalem was pulled down after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected his family's appeal. | The house on the outskirts of East Jerusalem was pulled down after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected his family's appeal. |
| Israel says the demolition of the homes of attackers is a deterrent. | Israel says the demolition of the homes of attackers is a deterrent. |
| Hussam Dwayat used a bulldozer to smash into cars and a bus in central Jerusalem, killing three and injuring more than 40. | Hussam Dwayat used a bulldozer to smash into cars and a bus in central Jerusalem, killing three and injuring more than 40. |
| He carried out his attack on Jaffa Road on 2 July. The 30-year-old father of two was stopped when an off-duty soldier shot him dead. | |
| The Israeli authorities have said that Dwayat acted alone and was not connected to any Palestinian militant group. | |
| Human right groups such as B'tselm have said "the demolition of houses as a clear case of collective punishment which violates the principle that a person is not to be punished for the acts of another". | |
| In 2005 an Israeli military commission concluded the policy of destroying a Palestinian attacker's home ineffective as a deterrent against future strikes on Israelis. | |
| Two other attacks by Palestinians using bulldozers have been carried out since Hussam Dwayat's death, though no Israelis were killed in these later incidents. |