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Official PA news agency calls terrorist who stabbed 13-year-old in her bed a "Martyr"

Headline: “The occupation notified about the destruction of a Martyr’s home and arrested a citizen from Bani Na’im east of Hebron”
“[PA] security sources reported to WAFA (i.e., official PA news agency) that occupation forces raided the home of Martyr (Shahid) Muhammad Taraireh in the town of Bani Na’im, who carried out the stabbing operation in the settlement of ‘[Givat] Harsina’ (i.e., a neighborhood of Kiryat Arba) east of Hebron, and notified his relatives of the decision to demolish their home on July 7, 2016.”

Muhammad Taraireh – 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist, who stabbed and murdered 13-year-old American Israeli Hallel Yaffa Ariel, as she slept in her bed, in her home in Kiryat Arba near Hebron, on June 30, 2016. Taraireh also injured one of the Israeli security personnel before he was shot and killed.

Israel carries out demolitions of terrorists' houses. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "Demolition orders are issued only against the residences of terrorists who commit the most serious offenses" and it is "an act of deterrence meant to discourage Palestinians from carrying out future terror attacks so as to minimize their number.” (MFA website)

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