BAZZARYAH, Dec 24: The Israeli army demolished on Wednesday the home of a Palestinian accused of carrying out a stabbing and shooting attack that killed an Israeli earlier this year, the military said.

On July 10, two attackers killed 22-year-old Shalev Zvuluny in a shopping area near Jerusalem, before the Israeli army shot them dead.

On Wednesday, Israeli army bulldozers entered the village of Bazzaryah in the occupied West Bank, destroying the family home of one of the attackers after it had been evacuated. Hazem Yassine, head of the Bazzaryah municipal council, denounced what he called a “heinous crime”.

An AFP photographer saw children climbing on piles of rubble after the demolition, waving the Palestinian flag.

Israel, whose army has occupied the West Bank since 1967, regularly demolishes the homes of Palestinians. �”AFP