Ronen Hanania
Ronen HananiaCourtesy of the family

The head of the IDF Central Command on Monday signed a confiscation and demolition order that was issued last week for the home in which terrorist Muhammad Jabari lived.

Jabari in October carried out a shooting attack near Hebron in which Ronen Hanania was murdered and several others were wounded.

The order was signed after an appeal filed by the terrorist's family was rejected.

Hanania was murdered on a Saturday night in October. The terrorist opened fire on him and his son when they left a grocery store owned by a Palestinian Arab.

The son, Daniel, was lightly wounded from a gunshot to his hand. The terrorist left the scene in a car, but returned on foot eight minutes later. He opened fire again and seriously wounded medic Ofer Ohana. A civilian security coordinator drove his vehicle to the scene and ran over the terrorist, at which point a Golani soldier on leave shot him and killed him.

Hanania was murdered a few days before his 50th birthday. He is survived by his wife Meirav, and his only son - Daniel, 20 years old.

Hanania’s family said on Monday, "We welcome the decision concerning the demolition of the home of the terrorist who murdered the one dearest to us. At the same time, this decision should have been made half an hour after the attack and not months later. In addition, we regret that it was decided to demolish a very small part of the building where the despicable terrorist lived."

"In order to deter and subdue our enemies, the State of Israel needs to demolish the entire house and deny residency to the entire family, and all within a few hours of the attack and not after such a long time," the family added.

The head of the Kiryat Arba-Hebron council, Eliyahu Libman, said, "Nothing will bring back Ronen Hanania, and demolishing part of the building where the terrorist lived is actually a small and less deterrent punishment. We demand that deterrence be restored, that our enemy be dealt very painful blows after every attempted terrorist attack, certainly after such a despicable murder."