Israel practices revenge at family of assassin

Jerusalem - Israel began to destroy the apartments from assassins to who had committed assassination attempts in Jerusalem in the past weeks. At the night to Wednesday soldiers and policemen made the fourth floor of a house in the Ostjerusalemer quarter Silwan uninhabitable.

There the family of Abd aluminum Rahman al-Shaludi lives. The 21-year old had raced on 22 October with its car into a crowd at a Jerusalemer tram stop. It killed a three months old girl and a woman and still at the scene by the police was shortly thereafter shot. His mother Enas al-Shaludi speaks of an accident, pictures of a security camera of the tram station lets however a deliberate act appear most probable.

2005 had judged a commission of inquiry of the Israeli armed forces that house destruction would not serve their purpose. On the contrary: Instead of deterring potential assassins, they only more hate among the Palestinians stirred up, found the committee. In addition the families would have gotten often afterwards donation funds, with which they could build larger houses than before.

In the next weeks nevertheless further dwellings are to be concerned. On Tuesday of Israel arranged prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that also the apartments of the two assassins are to be demolished, who had killed few hours before with their attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem five humans.

Nevertheless the family vacated its house in Hebron in the West Jordan territory of Maher al-Ashlamun as a precaution already. The Palestinian had stabbed the 26-year old Israeli Dalia Lemkus in the proximity of a Jewish settlement in the past week.