Massive police forces entered the Shuaafat neighborhood in Jerusalem on Monday morning and sealed the home of Fadi Abu-Shkadem, a Hamas-linked terrorist who murdered Eli Kay and injured four other Israelis in a shooting attack in November.
Acting on a court order, some 150 policemen participated in the operation. Abu-Shkadem’s apartment is part of a residential building that includes a number of other apartments, and therefore the demolition of the terrorist’s house was carried out by sealing the apartment and not raising it, as is usually the case.
On November 21, 2021, Abu-Shkadem fired at Israelis on their way to the Kotel in Jerusalem Old City, killing Eli Kay and wounding four others.
He was shot and killed shortly after by Israeli forces. He wrote in a will he left behind that he was “at the highest level of happiness and willingness, to crown years of hard and continuous work and to meet Allah” hours before he carried out the attack.
The terrorist, who was a teacher by profession and received a salary from the Jerusalem municipality, also wrote to his students recounting how he taught them the stories of ancient Islam, and “today, I leave you to join them and go their way. To continue in this way, the way of the prophets and the righteous, which is not wrong.”
The demolitions of terrorists’ homes are meant to serve as a deterrence for potential terrorists plotting future attacks.
