The IDF has issued a demolition order for the home of the terrorist who killed two people in a combined terror attack in the North in December, the military confirmed on Monday.
The attack, carried out across multiple locations, resulted in the murder of Shimshon Mordechai, 68, and Aviv Maor, 19. Several civilians were wounded.
According to the military, the demolition notice was delivered once security forces had completely sealed off the attacker’s home. The IDF said the action was part of measures approved after operational and legal review.
Combined terror attack killed two, wounded others
Near Beit She’an, the terrorist car-rammed Mordechai, who later succumbed to his wounds. The murderer then fled in a vehicle, stopping on Route 71 to fatally stab Kibbutz Ein Harod member Maor.
The terrorist continued driving before being neutralized outside Afula.
“When we arrived at the scene, we saw a boy sitting inside a car, conscious and suffering from wounds to his limbs,” Magen David Adom EMT Daniel Mousai said. “Citizens who were there told us that he had been hit by a fleeing vehicle, and they helped him in the first moments.”
Mousai recalled that just as they were loading the boy into an ambulance for him to be taken to the hospital, they received a report of an unconscious, wounded person on a nearby street.
“I immediately got to him and saw [Mordechai], a 68-year-old man lying on the side of the road, suffering from a serious chest injury. Together with the intensive care unit team, we provided medical treatment and performed CPR, but his wound was fatal, and we had to pronounce him dead on the spot.”
Tzvi Jasper and Gadi Zaig contributed to this report.