Clashes broke out after hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police were deployed in an east Jerusalem neighborhood Wednesday as police engineers carried out a planned demolition of a home of a Palestinian who carried out an attack last year.
"The forces are prepared to ensure order and security, and to prevent violence in order to allow IDF forces to carry out the order of the commander of the Homefront Command and destroy the home of the terrorist in the Shuafat refugee camp," said a statement by Israeli police said ahead of the demolition Wednesday.
The home which was demolished was located in the Shuafat refugee camp and was the residence of Ibrahim al-Akari, who carried out a car-ramming attack on November 5, 2014, killing two people, including Jaddan Assad, an Israeli police commander from the minority Druze community, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.