The Israeli army destroyed the West Bank apartment early Wednesday of a Palestinian man who carried out an attack last month near the settlement of Ariel in which Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger, 47, and 19-year-old Staff Sgt. Gil Keidan were killed and in which another Israeli soldier was seriously wounded. The home was in the village of Zawiya, south of Ariel.

The Palestinian, Omar Amin Abu-Leila, was killed several days after the attack in an exchange of gunfire in the village Abween near Ramallah as Israeli security forces sought to arrest him. The Shin Bet security service said Abu Leila opened fire on security forces before he was killed and that none of the Israeli soldiers was hit.

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The night after the attack, security forces arrested members of Abu Leila's family and conducted a survey of his home.

Last week the army demolished the home in a Palestinian village north of Ramallah of Saleh Barghouti, who carried out an attack in December at the settlement of Ofra in which seven people were wounded. One of the injured was Shira Ish-Ran, who was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Her baby was delivered in the hospital and died three days later.