Demolition

IDF foil ISIS terror plot in Jericho, seize Hamas weapons cache in Gaza

The IDF said they found "a large amount of guns, an RPG rocket, and an explosive device that were going to be used to harm IDF soldiers operating in the area."

FEBRUARY 17, 2026|ByFRAIDY MOSER

Security forces arrested a cell of ISIS terrorists on suspicion of planning to carry out an attack.

IDF demolishes the home of terrorist Mahmoud Yusef Abed, in the village of Halhul, West Bank. February 2.

IDF demolishes West Bank home of terrorist who killed Israeli in Gush Etzion

Abed, together with another terrorist, carried out the shooting attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the Etzion Brigade area, in which Shalev Zabuloni was murdered.

FEBRUARY 2, 2026|ByLARA SUKSTER MOSHEYOF

UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) and Lebanese military vehicles patrol in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, January 8, 2026

IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, citing repeated ceasefire violations

Shortly after the strike began, rocket sirens sounded in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the Gaza border community. The sirens were almost immediately deemed a false alarm.

JANUARY 15, 2026|BySAM HALPERN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The IDF demolished the house of the terrorists who killed Shalev Zevuloni.

IDF demolishes home of terrorist who killed late Shalev Zevuloni in Gush Etzion junction attack

"IDF forces operated in the village of Bazariya in the Shomron Brigade to demolish the home of the terrorist Malek Ibrahim Salem," the military said.

DECEMBER 25, 2025|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

EU envoy warns against largest IDF eviction of Palestinians in decades

Israel’s High Court of Justice had ruled in May that the army could evict more than 1,000 Palestinians who live in scattered small herding villages in an IDF training area.

JULY 7, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

European Union Representative Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff in the south Hebron Hills, July 7, 2022

High Court approves house demolition for Palestinian Ariel terrorist

The three conservative justices on the court unanimously rejected the families' claims that demolishing a home is a disproportionate punishment, instead acknowledging it as a regrettable consequence.

JUNE 8, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

IDF soldiers map the house of the terrorist who killed Golev Vyacheslav at the entrance to Ariel on April 29, 2022.

IDF demolishes home of Bnei Brak terrorist amid clashes

Two Palestinians died following armed clashes as IDF troops enter Yabad, near Jenin.

JUNE 1, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The house of the terrorist who killed five Israelis in Bnei Brak on March 29 is demolished by an explosion, on June 2, 2022.

IDF troops destroy home of Palestinian terrorist who killed Yehuda Dimentman

The homes of all four accomplices have been demolished.

MAY 7, 2022ByANNA AHRONHEIM

IDF troops along with Border Police destroy the floor where Omar Ahmed Yassin Jaradat, a terrorist who killed a 25-year-old Israeli man, lived in the village of Silat al-Harithiya.

Jerusalem's Dan Pearl Hotel to be demolished after 20 years of neglect

The court’s decision thus ended 20 years of neglect and ugliness, enabling the city to issue a tender for a new hotel to be built on the premises.

APRIL 11, 2022ByPEGGY CIDOR

The abandoned Dan Pearl Hotel in Jerusalem.

US: Israel must refrain from Palestinian demolitions like in Sheikh Jarrah

Members of the UNSC condemned the demolition of two homes in the contentious east Jerusalem neighborhood.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Palestinians with gas cylinders stand on a rooftop of a house being evacuated by Israeli special forces in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. January 17, 2022.

PFLP calls for resistance against Israel after Sheikh Jarrah demolitions

“This crime falls within the framework of many crimes committed by the occupation authorities, militias and settlers in Jerusalem with the aim of completing its Israelization and Judaization."

JANUARY 19, 2022ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH