The IDF demolished on Tuesday morning the homes of two Palestinian assailants who carried out deadly terror attacks.

The military said that security forces, Border Police and the Civil Administration demolished the West Bank homes of Raid Halil and Mahmoud Harub.

The assailants completed two separate attacks on November 19. Halil carried out a stabbing attack at Panarama Building in southern Tel Aviv in which Reuven Aviram and Aharon Yesayev were killed. Harub carried out a shooting and car-ramming attack at the Alon Shvut junction in the West Bank in which American citizen Ezra Schwartz, and Israelis Shadi Arafa and Yaacov Don were killed. Both attackers were apprehended.

Open gallery view A Palestinian man gestures as he talks to the media on the rubble of of Palestinian Raed Masalmeh's home after it was demolished by Israeli army in the West Bank town of Dura, February 23, 2016. Credit: Reuters

Some 28 Israelis have been killed in a five month-long wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence. At least 166 Palestinians have been killed, 119 said by Israel to have been attackers.

Israel says home demolitions can deter attacks. Critics say the tactic amounts to collective punishment.