The High Court of Justice on Thursday approved the IDF’s demolition orders of the houses of Rina Shnerb’s killers, despite the impact it will have on uninvolved family members and their neighbors.
Bian Hanatasha, Halmi Hamdan and Sana’a Majams, family members of Shnerb’s killers, had all petitioned the High Court to block the IDF demolition orders.
Justices Hanan Melcer, Daphna Baraz-Erez and Yael Wilner voted unanimously to endorse the demolitions, saying that, despite the harm to the family members who would lose their home, they were critical for deterring future terrorist attacks by people like the killers who murdered Shnerb last August.
The court said that it was satisfied that there wasn’t any less extreme action that could be taken to achieve deterrence, and that the IDF would work hard to ensure that only the homes of the killers would be demolished, not homes of unrelated neighbors.
Melcer said that at the hearing on the petitions, he had asked the petitioning family members to condemn the actions of their relatives who were involved in Shnerb’s murder.
He said that such a condemnation might have served as a deterrent even in place of the demolition, but that his request was greeted by a disturbing and stony silence.
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