During the home demolition in Askar refugee camp near Shechem, Palestinians threw explosives and shot at the soldiers, who responded with dispersal measures.
By Pesach Benson, TPS
The Israeli Defense Forces on Tuesday morning entered the Askar refugee camp near Shechem (Nablus) and razed the home of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered two brothers in February.
Palestinians in the camp threw explosives and shot at the soldiers who responded with dispersal measures. No Israeli casualties were reported.
Abdel Fattah Kharousha, a member of Hamas, killed the brothers Hallel and Yagael Yaniv in the village of Huwara by ramming their car off the road and then shooting the brothers at point blank range.
A manhunt led Israeli security forces to Jenin, where Kharousha was killed in a shootout in March.
Hallel, 21, was studying in a “hesder” program which combines military service with religious studies in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona. The 21-year-old was a staff sergeant in the Israeli Navy, who served in a patrol boat squadron.
Yagael, who was two weeks away from his twentieth birthday, was studying in a similar hesder program in the coastal town of Givat Olga. He was trying to qualify to serve in a combat unit.