Israel blows up home of Palestinian tram stop killer
Israeli security forces have today blown up the house of a Palestinian man who ran over and killed three people, including a three-month-old baby girl, at a tram stop in Jerusalem last month.
It comes just a day after two militants killed four rabbis and a policeman in an attack at a synagogue in the city.
The military said the home of 21-year-old Abdel-Rahman Shaloudi was destroyed shortly before dawn.
Shaloudi was shot dead by police as he tried to run after mowing down the commuters on October 22, which his family claim was nothing more than an accident.
His house, in the Silwan area of Jerusalem, has been the scene of several confrontations since the incident.
The Israeli army has recently begun carrying out court-sanctioned demolitions of militants’ homes again, after giving up the practice in 2005.