{"id":104954,"date":"2025-09-09T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/?p=104954"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:51:56","slug":"footage-idf-demolishes-terrorists-home-jerusalems-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/footage-idf-demolishes-terrorists-home-jerusalems-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage: IDF demolishes terrorist\u2019s home \u2013 Jerusalem\u2019s pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"590\">Before dawn, Israeli forces carried out a demolition that sent shockwaves far beyond the Hebron area. The house of the attacker responsible for killing 12-year-old Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha from Jerusalem was blown up, a powerful reminder of the city\u2019s continuing grief<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"592\" data-end=\"900\">Israeli forces demolished at dawn on Tuesday the home of the terrorist who belonged to the cell that carried out the shooting attack at the al-Khader junction about eight months ago. In that attack, 12-year-old Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha from Jerusalem was killed, and three other civilians were wounded<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"953\">The demolition near Hebron \u2013 powerful footage<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1422\">According to an IDF statement, forces from the Judea Brigade together with the elite Yahalom engineering unit operated overnight in the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, to demolish the home of Thaabat Muhammad Masalmeh. Palestinian sources said the operation lasted several hours between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Residents of the building and nearby houses were evacuated, explosives were planted in the walls, and at dawn the building was blown up<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1424\" data-end=\"1660\">Palestinian reports claimed that two people were injured in the blast. During the operation, Israeli forces also used crowd-control measures, including tear gas, to disperse gatherings, which led to additional cases of gas inhalation<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1900\">In a separate statement, the IDF reported that forces from the Binyamin Brigade mapped the homes of two terrorists, Muhammad Taha and Muthanna Amro, who carried out Monday\u2019s attack at the Ramot junction in Jerusalem, killing six people<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u0641\u062c\u0631 \u0645\u0646\u0632\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0633\u064a\u0631 \u062b\u0627\u0628\u062a \u0645\u0633\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0628\u0644\u062f\u0629 \u0628\u064a\u062a \u0639\u0648\u0627 \u062c\u0646\u0648\u0628 \u063a\u0631\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0644. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fwJP96lJSG\">pic.twitter.com\/fwJP96lJSG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0642\u062f\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629 (@qudsn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qudsn\/status\/1965322673032233261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1902\" data-end=\"1968\">Remembering the al-Khader shooting and its road to Jerusalem<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1970\" data-end=\"2593\">The attack in which Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha from Jerusalem was killed took place on December 11, 2024. A \u201cKavim\u201d bus, line 291, was traveling from Beitar Illit to Jerusalem when, near the Tunnel Road on Route 60, close to the al-Khader junction, automatic gunfire struck the vehicle. The bus was hit by 23 bullets. Among the passengers was Yehoshua and his family, returning to Jerusalem from a family event. The boy was critically wounded and rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, where doctors fought for his life for three days before pronouncing him dead. He was buried in the Givat Shaul cemetery<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"2027\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/video-jungle-on-jerusalem-roads-15-year-old-at-the-wheel\/\">Video: 15-year-old in Jerusalem \u2013 jungle on the road<\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"2595\" data-end=\"2640\">Tributes and commemoration in Jerusalem<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"2642\" data-end=\"3084\">Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha was a student at the \u201cKlal Hasidim\u201d yeshiva in Beitar Illit. His father, Rabbi Zusha Simcha, head of a yeshiva, eulogized his son: \u201cIt is not the order of the world for a father and mother to stand at the funeral of their child. You were an example to everyone, even to your father. I always felt I had to be better, because I had such a special child and I needed to match myself to be a father to such a son<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3086\" data-end=\"3215\">His older brother added: \u201cMy dear brother, you were the best brother. We went through so much together. My heart hurts deeply<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3217\" data-end=\"3571\">Beitar Illit Mayor Meir Rubinstein also paid tribute: \u201cYehoshua was gentle and pure, innocent and God-fearing, a symbol to his family and to all around him\u2026 The entire people of Israel mourn you. A great loss for all of us.\u201d Rabbis and yeshiva heads from across the Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox world remembered his devotion to Torah study and his piety<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3573\" data-end=\"3817\">In July this year, a moving ceremony was held at his yeshiva to begin writing a Torah scroll in his memory. The project was initiated by another young man who had also been on the bus that night and survived when a bullet grazed his forehead<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night raid destroyed the house of the man who killed 12-year-old Yehoshua Simcha from Jerusalem \u2013 video shows blast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":104948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"9319","_seopress_titles_title":"Footage: IDF demolishes terrorist\u2019s home \u2013 Jerusalem\u2019s pain","_seopress_titles_desc":"Night raid destroyed the house of the man who killed 12-year-old Yehoshua Simcha from Jerusalem \u2013 video shows blast","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10327,9320,9314],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking","8":"category-jerusalem-news","9":"category-main-item"},"acf":{"subtitle":"Night raid destroyed the house of the man who killed 12-year-old Yehoshua Simcha from Jerusalem \u2013 video shows blast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}