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Feb. 3, 2021
Israel’s High Court of Justice gave its stamp of approval on Wednesday for the army to destroy the home of Muhammad Kabha, a Palestinian man accused of murdering Esther Horgen, a woman from a West Bank settlement, last month.
Justices Isaac Amit, Daphne Barak-Erez and Anat Baron rejected a petition by Kabha’s family to halt the demolition order for the home, which also houses his wife and three children, who are minors, as well as his parents.
Two of the justices thought there was no room for interfering with the military’s choice: Amit wrote that family members’ prior knowledge or support for a terrorist act is one of the reasons she decided the house could be razed, but added, “this isn’t an essential condition.”