IDF demolishes West Bank home of Palestinian terrorist behind deadly July attack

IDF troops on Wednesday demolished the home of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a deadly stabbing and shooting attack in the West Bank in July, the military said.

In the attack on July 10, Mahmoud Abed and Malik Salem fatally stabbed a security guard, Shalev Zvuluny, 22, outside a supermarket at the Gush Etzion Junction.

The assailants then snatched the guard’s handgun and exchanged fire with a soldier and an armed civilian before being killed.

The perpetrators, both 23, were Palestinian cops who served in the Palestinian Authority’s police force. Neither had been previously detained by Israel, a defense official said at the time.

The army said it operated in the West........

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