IDF soldiers deliver demolition order to terrorist's family
Photo: IDF Spokesman's Office
IDF delivers demolition order to Barkan terrorist's family
While Ashraf Na'alwa, who murdered Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hagbi in a shooting attack, is still at large, security forces prepare to demolish his house; family has 3 days to appeal decision.
The IDF delivered on Monday morning a home demolition order to the family of Ashraf Na'alwa,
who murdered two Israelis
in a terror attack in the Barkan industrial zone.
The family has three days to appeal the decision.
The manhunt for Na'alwa continues, and he is believed to be armed. The IDF and Shin Bet have arrested and interrogated several Palestinians suspected of aiding the terrorist.
IDF delivers demolition order (צילום: דובר צה"ל)
The 23 year old, from the village of Shweiki near Tulkarem, worked at the Alon recycling factory as an electrician for the past seven months, but last Sunday he came to work—a place considered a symbol of coexistence—armed with an M-16 rifle and shot dead Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hagbi, 35, and wounded Sarah Vettori, 54.
IDF soldiers deliver demolition order to terrorist's family (Photo: IDF Spokesman's Office)
The terrorist arrived at the factory shortly after 7:30am. He hid the M-16 rifle he had brought with him under his clothes and apparently showed the security at the industrial zone’s entrance his work permit.
Na'alwa entered the factory through the main entrance. He went upstairs to fix an electrical malfunction on the second floor, noticed several employees, and decided to go back downstairs with his weapon already drawn.
The terrorist then took cable ties from the factory’s warehouse and returned to the second floor, the office floor, to carry out the attack.
He forced a Palestinian cleaning worker at gunpoint to handcuff one of the victims, Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, and then allowed him to escape. He then shot Levengrond Yehezkel dead and continued to the next office space, where he shot dead Ziv Hagbi.
The two victims: Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hagbi (צילום: יריב כץ)
On his way out, the terrorist identified another employee, Sarah Vettori, and fired in her direction, moderately wounding her.
Footage of the incident shows the terrorist escaping the factory by running down the stairs while holding the weapon and a backpack.
So far, no organization has claimed credit for the attack, and so the defense establishment considers this a lone-wolf terror attack. Security forces haven't been able to find any affiliation to a terror group either.
