Continuing to weigh in one the debate over whether or not the families of terrorists should be penalized for their relatives’ actions, the High Court of Justice has once again sided with the army.
In a ruling last week, the court said the army can seal the homes of three Hamas members who kidnapped and later killed Cpl. Nachshon Waxman in October.
In rejecting the appeals by the families of the terrorists, who had argued they were innocent of any crime, the court accepted the army’s argument that a new deterrent was necessary to counter the growing trend of suicide attacks, in which dying is no longer a deterrent.
Earlier this month, the court ruled that the army could destroy the home of the Hamas terrorist who carried out the Oct. 19 bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv in which 23 people, including the terrorist, were killed. Following the ruling, the army demolished part of the home in the West Bank town of Kalkilya in which the suicide bomber had lived. They army spared sections of the house inhabited by other family members.
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