The parents of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, a 13-year-old girl who was murdered by a terrorist in her Kiryat Arba home on June 29, said this week that razing the terrorist's home was not enough. On Thursday, the home of 17-year-old Mohammed Tarayreh, from the Palestinian village of Bani Naim, near Hebron, was demolished in retaliation for the late June attack. Tarayreh himself was killed shortly following the attack by Kiryat Arba security personnel as he was attempting to flee the scene. "The terrorist's family should be deported. We need to generate a reality where terror is entirely not worth the cost," said Rina, Hallel Yaffa's mother. "The ownership of every house like this should automatically be transferred into Jewish hands. The current situation is ridiculous: The terrorist's family is not deported, the house isn't fully demolished, and the areas that we [Jews] can settle aren't being settled. These things actually encourage terrorism." Amichai, Hallel Yaffa's father, added, "I would prefer that the State of Israel seize the terrorists' property rather than demolishing it. It would serve as a bigger deterrent." IDF sources remarked this week that the time that elapsed between the June 29 attack and the demolition of Tarayreh's home was the shortest period of time so far for the process, which involves legal hurdles, to be implemented. They stressed that the shorter the time span, the greater the deterrence factor. Meanwhile, Mohammed Yunis Ali, who stabbed an Israeli police officer in December 2013 was arrested recently by the IDF and the Shin Bet security agency. According to the Shin Bet, the terrorist confessed during his interrogation that on the day of the attack, he had decided to put an end to his "difficult life." He purchased a kitchen knife and boarded a taxi heading toward Bethlehem. When he spotted the victim, a police officer standing on the street, he approached him and stabbed him in the back before fleeing. The police officer sustained moderate injuries and is still recovering. The terrorist, meanwhile, got away. The Shin Bet issued a statement following the arrest saying that they would "continue to take action, using all the available means, to thwart terrorist attacks and prosecute the offenders even long after the attack." The victim of the stabbing attack, Advanced Staff Sgt. Maj. Rami Ravid, told Israel Hayom on Monday that he felt "a sense of closure." "I know how hard the Shin Bet and the army worked to find him. They have been exceptional," he said. Ravid, a father of two, recounted that "my children cried when they heard that the terrorist had been apprehended." In Raanana, a city in central Israel, the Israel Police arrested a Palestinian man who illegally entered Israel, and who turned out to be a former security prisoner released from an Israeli prison in 2011 in exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. The suspect, identified as Qawareiq Hindawi, 27, was detained at a construction site in Raanana along with seven other Palestinian workers who had also entered Israel illegally from the West Bank. Hindawi told the arresting officers that "this is our land, and we will enter it whenever we want." For of the suspects remain in custody and four have been sent back to the West Bank. The owner of the construction site has also been summoned by police. Hindawi had previously been imprisoned in Israel for unlawful assembly and possession of weapons. He was initially sentenced to six years but only served four. One of the conditions of his release was that he refrain from entering Israel a condition he has clearly violated.
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