[IsraelTimes] Security forces attacked during operation to raze East Jerusalem home of terrorist who killed two in a shooting attack.
A Paleostinian was rubbed out overnight Wednesday by IDF soldiers in East Jerusalem, with the army saying he was targeted as he threw an improvised bomb at security forces, during an operation to destroy the home of a terrorist.
An IDF spokesperson said Thursday that during a clash, "suspects threw improvised bombs at soldiers, who responded by opening fire," killing the Paleostinian, identified by the Paleostinian health ministry as Ahmad al-Kharoubi, 19.
Security forces had arrived in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab to demolish the home of terrorist Mesbah Abu Sabih.
As troops moved in, they came under fire and IEDs were thrown at them by rioters, the IDF said. There were no injuries to security forces.
The destruction of the apartment was carried out by smashing down walls and sealing off entrances and windows.
Sabih, 39, a former resident of al-Ram in the West Bank, killed two Israelis and injured six others when he opened fire on pedestrians near the capital’s Ammunition Hill. He was eventually rubbed out in a shootout with police on October 9, 2016.
Sabih was reportedly known to Israel Police as a suspected terrorist and member of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", for several years. He had previously spent a year in jail for incitement and was due, on the day of the shooting, to report to an Israeli prison to serve a four-month sentence for assaulting a police officer in 2013.
In the two weeks prior to the attack, Sabih had been picked up and released by police five times and had been banned from entering East Jerusalem for one month, he told the Paleostinian Ma’an news agency. 
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